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Reduced risk of prostate cancer in a cohort of Lithuanian diabetes patients

2019-11-07

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background: The aim of this study was to determine whether type 2 diabetes mellitus and treatment with metformin is associated with prostate cancer risk. <h4>Methods:</h4> Male patients with diagnosis of type 2 diabetes during the period of 2000 – 2016 were identified in the National Health Insurance Fund database. The prostate cancer cases were identified by pooling these records from...

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Literature Corpus work: b7e4158e-d814-548e-8813-e64a63b0cba7
DOI: 10.21203/rs.2.16841/v1

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