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According to a U.S. study, diabetic patients are at higher risk for specific cancers, including colon and pancreatic cancer for men and breast cancer for women, than those without the disease.
Chaoyang Li, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, George, the lead author, said, “The significant association between cancer and diabetes does not surprise us.”
From news.yahoo.com:
After taking into account things such as age, race, smoking and drinking habits, the researchers concluded that diabetic men and women were 10 percent more likely to have had a cancer diagnosis of any kind.
Compared to people without diabetes, diabetic men were more likely to report having colon, pancreas, rectum, urinary bladder, kidney or prostate cancer. Diabetic women had more cases of breast cancer, leukemia or a type of uterine cancer.
For men, the greatest increase in risk was for pancreatic cancer, with 16 per 10,000 cases among diabetics and just two per 10,000 among non-diabetics. — a four-fold difference after other factors are taken into consideration.
Women’s risk of leukemia also rose sharply. One per 1,000 women without diabetes said they had been diagnosed with the blood cancer, compared to three per 1,000 women with diabetes.
The study was based on a telephone survey of nearly 400,000 adults and the findings appeared in Diabetes Care.
