If this dirt cheap diabetes drug that has been on the market since the 1990's might also have a anticancer product in it, If this drug does work to help fight cancer, think of all the people that it would help and save. According to the article," The first hint that metformin might also have anticancer properties came a decade later, when two research teams separately reported that diabetes patients were less likely to develop cancer, and less likely to die from the disease, if they were taking the drug. This news wasn't entirely surprising: Metformin treats diabetes in part by lowering insulin levels, and several types of cancer -- such as those of the breast, colon, and prostate -- have been linked to high levels of that hormone."
If this drug really does help fight cancer, then it will be a dramatic life line to thousands of cancer patients worldwide. My mom has had colon cancer, and thankfully she is in full remission. Yet some people that have had the same cancer have not been as lucky. If this pill that has been used to help diabetics can help cancer patients. Think of how much money people will save. This pill in its generic form is not expensive at all as the article states: "the generic form cost pennies a pill." People that have had to cut corners or not take specific medications for cancer will hopefully in the near future not have to. They will be able to take metformin and the other medications that they have to take and hopefully save a lot of money in the long run.
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