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Insulin Therapy and Cancer in Type 2 Diabetes

Despite the availability of many other agents, insulin is widely used as a treatment for type 2 diabetes. In vitro, insulin stimulates the growth of cancer cells, through the interaction with insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) receptors and its own receptors. In observational surveys on type 2 dia...

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Autor principal: Mannucci, Edoardo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Scholarly Research Network 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3504371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23209929
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2012/240634