Oral Cancer Prevention

The diabetes drug metformin may protect against oral cancer , according to an article published in the Cancer Prevention Research Journal . Researchers induced premalignant lesions in mice and studied the effects metformin had as these lesions progressed into oral cancer . They found that the introduction of metformin reduced the size and number of carcinogen-induced oral tumoral lesion in mice and significantly reduced the development of squamous cell carcinoma(oral cancer) by about 70-90% .