The gynecologic tumor risk related to GLP-1 receptor agonists and SGLT2 inhibitors use: a network meta-analysis of 91 randomized controlled trials

Ping-Tao Tseng, Bing-Yan Zeng, Chih-Wei Hsu, Cheuk-Kwan Sun, Mein-Woei Suen, Andre F. Carvalho, Brendon Stubbs, Yen-Wen Chen, Tien-Yu Chen, Wei-Te Lei, Po-Huang Chen, Jiann-Jy Chen, Yow-Ling Shiue, Bing-Syuan Zeng, Kuan-Pin Su, Chih-Sung Liang · 2025

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Ping-Tao Tseng and co-authors weigh whether two popular diabetes drug classes raise the risk of gynecologic tumors. Their 2025 network meta-analysis pools ninety-one randomized trials with well over two hundred thousand participants. Concerns about cancer potential had circulated for both classes, but no agreed answer existed for specific regimens.

The analysis compares many drug variants through their shared trial controls, counting tumors in women as the main outcome. Only one regimen, a high weekly dose of one drug, showed a significantly raised overall tumor risk against controls. Dropout rates served as a stand-in for acceptability, and a second statistical approach checked the findings. Regimen-level answers help prescribers balance metabolic benefit against rare harms.

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CREATORPing-Tao Tseng, Bing-Yan Zeng, Chih-Wei Hsu, Cheuk-Kwan Sun, Mein-Woei Suen, Andre F. Carvalho, Brendon Stubbs, Yen-Wen Chen, Tien-Yu Chen, Wei-Te Lei, Po-Huang Chen, Jiann-Jy Chen, Yow-Ling Shiue, Bing-Syuan Zeng, Kuan-Pin Su, Chih-Sung Liang
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE58 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12661836

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