"In addiction medicine, a lot of treatments target just one thing, for example, a nicotine patch helps with smoking, but not alcohol, but there is no medication that works across addictive substances, let alone all of them," said senior author Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, a WashU Medicine clinical epidemiologist and Chief of the Research and Development Service at the VA Saint Louis Health Care System
Cleo Ryals of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill also presented at the 2025 SABCS indicated there may be a connection between the use of GLP-1 agonists and reduced circulating tumor activity, suggesting that these medications may have benefits for patients with breast cancer beyond weight loss
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