New hope for aggressive breast cancers as diabetes drug creates treatment sweet spot

New hope for aggressive breast cancers as diabetes drug creates treatment ‘sweet spot’

06:10 EDT 24 Jun 2019 | ecancermedicalscience

A drug commonly used to treat Type 2 diabetes can force breast cancer ‘stem cells’ to become reliant on sugar, opening up new ways to target aggressive forms of the disease, new research has found. The study, funded by charity Breast Cancer Now,...

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