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Meng Cao¹, Chu Lin¹, Xiaoling Cai¹

¹Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Peking University People's Hospital, Peking University Diabetes Center, Beijing 100044, China.

Precision clinical medicine

|December 12, 2025

Abstract:

Cancer is becoming one of the leading causes of death among patients with diabetes. Hyperglycemia and obesity, two key characteristics of type 2 diabetes, modify the risks of cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes. However, recent studies suggested that glycemic control and weight loss mediated by anti-diabetic medications might not be sufficient to lower the risks of cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes. Thus, there is a need to explore the association between anti-diabetic medications and cancer beyond glycemic and body weight control. This review has summarized the preclinical and clinical evidence between various anti-diabetic drugs and cancer. More importantly, this review focused on the underlying links between anti-diabetic medications and cancer beyond glycemic and body weight control, including modified cell proliferation, altered levels of some hormones, inflammation and oxidative stimuli, autophagy and apoptosis, intestinal flora shift, and angiogenesis and epithelial-mesenchymal transition. This review may provide insights for future clinical and mechanistic studies to further elucidate the association between anti-diabetic medications and cancer.

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medicamentos antidiabéticos cáncer diabetes tipo 2

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