Cancer risk in patients aged 30 years and above with type 2 diabetes receiving antidiabetic monotherapy: A cohort study using metformin as the comparator

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management

Volumn 11, Issue , 2015, Pages 1315-1323

  Chen, Yu Ching ^a   Kok, Victor C ^a,b   Chien, Ching Hsuan ^a   Horng, Jorng Tzong ^a,c   Tsai, Jeffrey J P ^a  

^a ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KUANG TIEN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Antidiabetic drug; Cancer risk; Metformin; Monotherapy; NHIRD; Sulfonylureas; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

ACARBOSE; GLITAZONE DERIVATIVE; INSULIN; MEGLITINIDE; METFORMIN; SULFONYLUREA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION;

EID: 84940727325     PISSN: 11766336     EISSN: 1178203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/TCRM.S91513     Document Type: Article

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