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ASTRO: Metformin use during radiotherapy associated with better gynecologic cancer outcomes


 

AT THE ASTRO ANNUAL MEETING

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Metformin could have an effect on radiation response, she noted, but “it is something we have only been seeing in the retrospective studies presented today, but it would be interesting to look at this in a prospective study.”

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