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Metformin in Combination With Chemoradiotherapy in Locally Advanced Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

Abstract

IMPORTANCE: Unresected locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (LA-NSCLC) shows poor survival outcomes even after aggressive concurrent chemoradiotherapy. Whether metformin, a diabetes agent that inhibits the mitochondria oxidative phosphorylation chain, could improve radiotherapy and chemotherapy response in LA-NSCLC remains to be studied. OBJECTIVE: To examine whether metformin, given concurrently with chemoradiotherapy and as …

Authors

Tsakiridis T; Pond GR; Wright J; Ellis PM; Ahmed N; Abdulkarim B; Roa W; Robinson A; Swaminath A; Okawara G

Journal

JAMA Oncology, Vol. 7, No. 9, pp. 1333–1341

Publisher

American Medical Association (AMA)

Publication Date

September 1, 2021

DOI

10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.2328

ISSN

2374-2437