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Re: exciting preclinical finding re metformin (diabetes drug) killing cancer stem cel
Lani will probably have more current data, but here is a link to an article published in July 2009, Journal of Clinical Oncology, which lists the numbers of breast cancer patients withand without diabetes in a cohort of 2,592 cases. http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/reprint/27/20/3271 (You may have to download the pdf file.) Its main author, Dr. Pamela Goodwin, is the principle investigator in the pending phase 3 Metformin Clinical Trial for early breast cancer.
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Male Breast Cancer, DX 5/15/09, IDC, STAGE 1, 1.7 cm, HER2+++, ER+(95%)/PR+(75%), Ki67 40%, grade 3, 0/5 nodes, TX: mastectomy, TCH finished 7/19/10, radiation 6 wks., Tamoxifen on going, bisphosphonate 24 mos.
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