Effect of metformin vs placebo on invasive disease–free survival in patients with breast cancer. The MA.32 randomized clinical trial.
Goodwin PJ, Chen BE, Gelmon KA, Whelan TJ, Ennis M, Lemieux J et al.
JAMA 2022; 327: 1963-1973.
This study included 3643 non diabetic women, who were followed for a median of 96.2 months. Metformin did not have any advantage for women with ER positive (hazard ratio for invasive disease-free survival 1.01, 95 per cent confidence interval 0.84 to 1.21, P=0.93) or ER negative breast cancer (1.01, 0.79 to 1.3, P=0.92).
Comment: Science is the destruction of a beautiful idea by an ugly fact.
13 July 2022
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