Diabetes drug may revolutionise cancer treatment

A COMMONLY prescribed diabetes drug has the potential to “revolutionise” cancer treatment, it was claimed.

Diabetes drug may revolutionise cancer treatment

The drug, metformin, boosts an important immune system defence against cancer, scientists have learned.

They believe the medicine could be used in conjunction with vaccines to provide promising new cancer therapies.

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