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Mortality after incident cancer in people with and without type 2 diabetes: impact of metformin on survival.

Currie, Craig J; Poole, Chris D; Jenkins-Jones, Sara; Gale, Edwin A M; Johnson, Jeffrey A; Morgan, Christopher Ll
Diabetes care; 2012 Feb;35(2):299-304. PMID: 22266734
Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School ofMedicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. currie@cardiff.ac.uk
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Abstract

Type 2 diabetes is associated with an increased risk of several types of cancer and with reduced survival after cancer diagnosis. We examined the hypotheses that survival after a diagnosis of solid-tumor cancer is reduced in those with diabetes when compared with those without diabetes, and that treatment with metformin influences survival after cancer diagnosis.