Type 2 diabetes increases and metformin reduces total, colorectal, liver and pancreatic cancer incidences in Taiwanese: a representative population prospective cohort study of 800,000 individuals

BACKGROUND: Metformin protection against cancer risk in Orientals is uncertain. We examined the possible metformin effect on total, esophageal, gastric, colorectal (CRC), hepatocellular (HCC) and pancreatic cancers in a Taiwanese cohort. METHODS: A representative sample of 800,000 was drawn from the...

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Autores principales: Lee, Meei-Shyuan, Hsu, Chih-Cheng, Wahlqvist, Mark L, Tsai, Hsin-Ni, Chang, Yu-Hung, Huang, Yi-Chen
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3031263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21241523
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-11-20

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3031263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21241523
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-11-20

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