Diabetes, anti-cancer medicine mix more effective: Study
Philadelphia: Scientists have discovered that combining diabetes drugs with anti-cancer remedies advances the efficiency of the latter, a study says.
Their studies, conducted in cell and animal types of melanoma, show the combined treatment might destroy a subset of drug-resistant cells in just a tumour, reports Science Daily.
'We unearthed that these slow-growing, drug-resistant cells are marked with a higher rate of kcalorie burning making them prone to diabetes therapeutics,' Herlyn added.
'Our studies suggest a simple technique to destroy metastatic cancer -- regardless of cell typ-e within the tumor - by com-bining anti-cancer drugs with diabetes drug.'
'The diabetes drug puts brakes to the cells that would otherwise re-populate the tumour, thus allowing the anti-cancer drug to-be more effective,' Herlyn said.
