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ArticleWorld journal of gastroenterology2022

Effects of diabetes type 2 and metformin treatment in Swedish patients with colorectal cancer.

Jan Dimberg, Levar Shamoun, Kalle Landerholm, Dick Wågsäter

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Article in World journal of gastroenterology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The intersection of colorectal cancer and cardiovascular disease: shared mechanisms and clinical implications.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jan DimbergDepartment of Natural Science and Biomedicine, School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University, Jönköping 551 11, Sweden.
Levar ShamounDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Region Jönköping County, Jönköping 553 05, Sweden.
Kalle LanderholmDepartment of Surgery, Region Jönköping County, Jönköping 553 05, Sweden.
Dick WågsäterDepartment of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala 751 23, Sweden. dick.wagsater@mcb.uu.se.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The association between type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and colorectal cancer (CRC) has been thoroughly investigated and reports have demonstrated that the risk of CRC is increased in DM patients. The association between DM and the survival of patients with CRC is controversial. Evidence suggests that metformin with its anti-inflammatory effects is a protective factor against the development of CRC among DM patients and that metformin therapy is associated with a better prognosis in patients with DM. In our cohort, we did not find any associations between the presence of DM or metformin and cancer specific survival or any relation to plasma levels of a panel of 40 inflammatory factors and irisin. On the other hand, we identified that the insulin-like growth factor binding protein 7 single nucleotide polymorphism rs2041437 was associated with DM in CRC patients. The dominance of the T bearing genotypes in patients with DM was statistically significant (

Indexed as

Colorectal NeoplasmsDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2MetforminHumansHypoglycemic AgentsSwedenHypoglycemic AgentsMetforminColorectal cancerCytokinesDiabetesMetforminPolymorphismSurvival

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PMID35664033
PMCPMC9134133

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