Metformin: new perspectives in chemoprevention and therapy of cancer
According to modern data, metformin is a unique drug, which can act not only as sugar-reducing medicine, but also as an antiproliferative element. More and more new researches about metformin effects in oncologic patients appear during last decades. A lot of researchers suppose that metformin is a new promising medicine for chemopreventive and neoadjuvant cancer therapy. This literature review covers current researches of metformin in context of it»s possible antiproliferative effects.