Metformin, a medication commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes, helps the body regulate sugar in the bloodstream. Part of the class of drugs known as biguanides, metformin reduces the amount of sugar you absorb from food and the amount produced by the liver. Metformin also impacts the way the body will respond to insulin, the natural substance that regulates blood sugar levels.

Diabetes Drug Metformin Investigated for Cancer Prevention Use

GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic and Wegovy may help lower the risk of certain cancers, a new study suggests.

Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Patients with type 2 diabetes taking GLP-1 treatments, which include Ozempic, have a lower chance of developing 10 types of obesity-related cancers than those taking insulin and other diabetes drugs, according to a study published on Friday.

Diabetes patients on GLP-1s instead of insulin have lower cancer risk, study shows

A comprehensive study by Karolinska Institutet found no evidence that GLP-1 analogs increase the risk of thyroid cancer. Analyzing data from over 435,000 patients across Scandinavia, the study compared GLP-1 users to those on other diabetes treatments over nearly four years, consistently showing no increased cancer risk. This research is part of a broader investigation into the real-world effects of newer diabetes medications.

Study Debunks Popular Diabetes Drugs’ Link to Thyroid Cancer

New York Post

Type 2 diabetes patients can significantly lower their risk for 10 obesity-related cancers if they take Ozempic instead of insulin to manage the disease, new research finds.

The study included 1.65 million people with Type 2 diabetes who were prescribed insulin, metformin or an Ozempic-like drug between March 2005 and November 2018.

Type 2 diabetes — which affects more than 34 million Americans — occurs when the body doesn’t produce enough insulin or doesn’t use insulin well, resulting in high blood sugar.





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Ozempic better than insulin in lowering the risk of certain cancers: study

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Since his diagnosis with incurable Stage IV brain cancer in 2023, Australian doctor Richard Scolyer revealed that he has been cancer-free for a year after undergoing a world-first treatment based on his own research on immunotherapy to treat melanoma, a type of skin cancer, according to BBC. Last year, following...

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43-year-old actress Olivia Munn, after she was diagnosed last year with breast cancer, underwent a hysterectomy, removing her uterus, with additional surgeries to remove her fallopian tubes and ovaries (oophorectomy) to avoid taking an estrogen-suppressing drug, but is surgery enough to keep the disease from coming back?

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Common high blood pressure drug losartan boosts chemotherapy’s ability to beat leukemia

Bone cancer is a rare type of cancer, which can go undetected for some time before being diagnosed. Although benign (non-cancerous) bone tumors are more common than malignant (cancerous) bone tumors, malignant bone cancer can be an aggressive cancer, and some types grow quickly. Quick progression makes early detection and treatment all the more important.

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A new study led by researchers at the American Cancer Society (ACS) finds four in 10 cancer cases and about one half of all cancer deaths in adults 30 years old and older in the United States (or 713,340 cancer cases and 262,120 cancer deaths in 2019) could be attributed to modifiable risk factors, including cigarette smoking, excess body weight, alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, diet, and infections. Cigarette smoking was by far the leading risk factor, contributing to nearly 20% of all cancer cases and 30% of all cancer deaths.

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F a decade, in blog posts and scientific papers and public talks, the psychologist Hal Herzog has questioned whether owning pets makes people happier and healthier. It is a lonely quest, convincing people that puppies and kittens may not actually be terrific for their physical and mental health. “When I talk to people about this,” Herzog recently said, “nobody believes me.” A prominent professor at a major public university once described him as “a super curmudgeon” who is, in effect, “trying to prove that apple pie causes cancer.”

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Weight-Loss Drugs May Prevent 10 Types of Cancer

People with type 2 diabetes who used glucagon-like peptide analogs such as Ozempic or Mounjaro had a lower risk for multiple types of cancer compared with...

Weight-Loss Drugs May Prevent 10 Types of Cancer

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