Association of metformin with breast cancer incidence and mortality in patients with type II diabetes: a GRADE-assessed systematic review and meta-analysis

GH Tang, M Satkunam, GR Pond, GR Steinberg… - … , biomarkers & prevention, 2018 - AACR
Background: Preclinical data suggest that metformin may reduce breast cancer incidence
and improve cancer prognosis. However, the current evidence in observational studies is …

[HTML][HTML] Metformin-induced anticancer activities: recent insights

S Safe, V Nair, K Karki - Biological chemistry, 2018 - degruyter.com
Metformin is a widely used antidiabetic drug, and there is evidence among diabetic patients
that metformin is a chemopreventive agent against multiple cancers. There is also evidence …

Metformin use is associated with better survival of breast cancer patients with diabetes: a meta-analysis

H Xu, K Chen, X Jia, Y Tian, Y Dai, D Li, J Xie… - The …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background. Diabetic patients with breast cancer receiving metformin and neoadjuvant
chemotherapy have a higher pathologic complete response rate than do diabetic patients …

New immunometabolic strategy based on cell type-specific metabolic reprogramming in the tumor immune microenvironment

JY Sung, JH Cheong - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Immunometabolism is an emerging discipline in cancer immunotherapy. Tumor tissues are
heterogeneous and influenced by metabolic reprogramming of the tumor immune …

Association between metformin therapy and breast cancer incidence and mortality: evidence from a meta-analysis

T Yang, Y Yang, S Liu - Journal of Breast Cancer, 2015 - synapse.koreamed.org
Purpose Metformin may be associated with a decreased risk of breast cancer. We performed
a meta-analysis to assess the effect of metformin intake on breast cancer risk and mortality …

Prognostic value of metformin in cancers: An updated meta-analysis based on 80 cohort studies

J Yang, H Yang, L Cao, Y Yin, Y Shen, W Zhu - Medicine, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Background: Experiments have shown that metformin can inhibit cancer cell growth, but
clinical observations have been inconsistent, so we pooled the currently available data to …

A systematic flux analysis approach to identify metabolic vulnerabilities in human breast cancer cell lines

SD Martin, SL McGee - Cancer & metabolism, 2019 - Springer
Background Increased flux through both glycolytic and oxidative metabolic pathways is a
hallmark of breast cancer cells and is critical for their growth and survival. As such, targeting …

Metformin use and its effect on gastric cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review of observational studies

P Li, C Zhang, P Gao, X Chen, B Ma… - Oncology …, 2018 - spandidos-publications.com
Increasing evidence suggests that metformin use is associated with a decreased risk of
cancer. The traditional therapies for gastric cancer (GC) are gastrectomy and …

Metformin and cancer-specific survival among breast, colorectal, or endometrial cancer patients: A nationwide data linkage study

JL Feng, X Qin - Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 2021 - Elsevier
Aims Equivocal results of association between metformin and cancer-specific survival need
more investigation. We tested the hypothesis that adherence to the drug had a lower cancer …

Targeting P-glycoprotein expression and cancer cell energy metabolism: combination of metformin and 2-deoxyglucose reverses the multidrug resistance of K562/Dox …

C Xue, C Wang, Q Liu, Q Meng, H Sun, X Huo, X Ma… - Tumor Biology, 2016 - Springer
Abstract P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is one of the major obstacles to efficiency of cancer
chemotherapy. Here, we investigated whether combination of metformin and 2 …