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Study: Oral Cancer Risk Reduced by Diabetes Drug

April 2nd, 2012 | Dental News | No Comments

Researchers at University of Maryland have found that patients with type 2 diabetes, who take a certain drug, are less likely to develop oral cancer. Metformin is perhaps the most widely used antidiabetic drug (for type 2 diabetes patients) which seems to have an important role in protecting diabetic patients against oral cancer. The findings have been published in the Cancer Prevention Research journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

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