Metformin is distributed to tumor tissue in breast cancer patients in vivo: A 11C-metformin PET/CT study.
CONCLUSION: This study confirms that metformin is transported into tumor tissue in women with breast cancer. This finding support that metformin may have direct anti-neoplastic effects on tumor cells in breast cancer patients. However, distribution of metformin in tumor tissue is markedly lower than in liver, an established metformin target tissue.
PMID: 32240455 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Biomed Res - Category: Research Authors: Sundelin EIO, Al-Suliman N, Vahl P, Vendelbo M, Munk OL, Jakobsen S, Pedersen SB, Frøkiær J, Gormsen LC, Jessen N Tags: Breast Cancer Res Treat Source Type: research
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