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Sorry about your friend. How is Metformin helpful for glioblastoma ? My sister has this. How is your friend doing? Any lessons?
by huherto 7y ago
Sorry about your friend. How is Metformin helpful for glioblastoma ? My sister has this. How is your friend doing? Any lessons?
- toomuchtodo 7y agoThere is a theory that still needs more evidence that cancers consumer sugar, and reducing your blood sugar (and sugar consumption in general) will slow tumor growth. There was another thread on HN within the last week that fasting 24-60 hours at a time during chemotherapy protects healthy cells while allowing chemotherapy to be more effective against the cancer. Things to discuss with an oncologist. Best wishes for your sister, I hope she pulls through.
- fumar 7y agoMy sister passed away from a gliobastoma. We didn’t try metformin but we did try thc. Any effects were too late.
- 01100011 7y agoI think the metformin was part of a shotgun approach used by the docs at UCSD. My friend's brothers were aggressively pushing treatment when it was clearly inoperable so that may have had something to do with it. My friend lasted a single, horrible year and passed away a few years ago.