{"id":32651,"date":"2016-12-14T13:49:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T21:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/inexpensive-diabetes-drug-may-be-new-weapon-in-war-on-cancer"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:58:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:58:06","slug":"inexpensive-diabetes-drug-may-be-new-weapon-in-war-on-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/inexpensive-diabetes-drug-may-be-new-weapon-in-war-on-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Inexpensive Diabetes Drug May Be New Weapon in War on Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inexpensive-diabetes-drug-may-be-new-weapon-in-war-on-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes a drug intended for one purpose turns out to have other uses. Metformin, a treatment for type 2 diabetes, may prove effective in treating cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers are a step closer to figuring out how metformin may help prevent cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Metformin is generally used to treat type 2 diabetes. The drug helps the body use insulin more effectively.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health-news\/diabetes-drug-new-weapon-in-war-on-cancer\">http:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health-news\/diabetes-drug-new-weapon-in-war-on-cancer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a drug intended for one purpose turns out to have other uses. Metformin, a treatment for type 2 diabetes, may prove effective in treating cancer. Researchers are a step closer to figuring out how metformin may help prevent cancer. Metformin is generally used to treat type 2 diabetes. The drug helps the body use [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65586,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32651\/revisions\/65586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}