Drugs, diabetes and cancer

Morris J. Birnbaum () and Reuben J. Shaw ()
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Morris J. Birnbaum: Morris J. Birnbaum is at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6148, USA.
Reuben J. Shaw: Reuben J. Shaw is at the Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.

Nature, 2011, vol. 470, issue 7334, 338-339

Abstract: Variation in a genomic region that contains the cancer-associated gene ATM affects a patient's response to the diabetes drug metformin. Two experts discuss the implications for understanding diabetes and the link to cancer.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1038/470338a

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