Diabetes Could Increase Risk of Cancer

Tue, 17 May 2011
It has been discovered that diabetic men and women are ten per cent more likely to be diagnosed for cancer .

A telephone survey of 400,000 adults discovered that 16 to 17 out of every 100 diabetics have cancer. This rate is considerably higher than the 7 out of 100 men and 10 out of 100 women discovered to be non-diabetics.

The cancers found commonly in diabetic men are of the colon, rectum, pancreas, kidney, urinary bladder and prostate . With diabetic women, breast cancer, uterine cancer and leukaemia were prevalent.

Most evident was the increased risk of pancreatic cancer in diabetic men, which appeared in 16 out of 10,000 male diabetics as opposed to two out of 10,000 male non-diabetics.

Up to now there has been no explanation for the co-morbidity of diabetes and cancer, although it is understood that high blood sugar levels or excess blood insulin could be involved.

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