Diabetes Medication Could Be Used to Reduce Tumor Growth

Researchers from UCLA have identified a new mechanism that delivers glucose to cancer cells, providing evidence that drugs used to treat diabetes could be used to reduce tumor growth in pancreatic and prostate cancers. Cancer cells require high amounts of the sugar glucose to survive and grow, and long-standing research has established passive glucose transporters, […]
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