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Yu-Xiao Yang1, Anil K Rustgi2.
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Metformin offers no survival advantage in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer. Despite promising experimental evidence suggesting an antitumor effect of metformin, its impact on the survival of advanced pancreatic cancer is likely very limited. Future studies may need to consider its role in early-stage pancreatic cancer. See related article by Reni et al., p. 1076. ©2015 American Association for Cancer Research.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26637275 PMCID: PMC4775394 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-15-2494
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Cancer Res ISSN: 1078-0432 Impact factor: 12.531