Cocktail of diabetes and hypertension drugs kills cancer cells

A combination of drugs for diabetes and hypertension may offer an effective new way to combat cancer, suggests a new research. In their experiments, the researchers found that the combination of the diabetes drug metformin and the antihypertensive drug syrosingopine drives cancer cells to programmed “suicide”. “We have been able to show that the two known drugs lead to more profound effects on cancer cell proliferation than each drug alone,” said study first author Don Benjamin from the University of Basel in Switzerland. “The data from this study support the…

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