Diabetes can increase the risk of developing a number of cancers, and may reduce the chances of survival in cancer patients, a study has found.<\/p>\n
Researchers from the Swedish National Diabetes Register compared over 450,000 people with type 2 diabetes with more than 2 million matched controls over an average of 7 years.<\/p>\n
For the most common cancers, individuals with diabetes face a 20 per cent greater risk of developing colorectal cancer and a five per cent higher risk of breast cancer compared with their diabetes-free counterparts.<\/p>\n
People with diabetes already diagnosed with cancer also fare worse, with a 25 per cent and 29 per cent higher chance of dying following a breast and prostate cancer diagnosis respectively than their peers without diabetes.<\/p>\n
Previous research has suggested a link between type 2 diabetes and an increased risk of cancer.<\/p>\n
However, the relationship between diabetes and cancer remains poorly understood due to limitations of previous studies.<\/p>\n
To provide more evidence, researchers examined the incidence of a number of cancers and post-cancer mortality in 457,473 individuals with type 2 diabetes from the NDR between 1998 and 2014, compared to 2,287,365 controls from the general population over an average of 7 years follow up.<\/p>\n
A total of 227,505 people developed cancer over the follow-up period. Diabetes was associated with 11 out of the 12 specific types of cancer investigated in the study.<\/p>\n
Scientists found that people with diabetes were 231 per cent more likely to be diagnosed with liver cancer than those without a history of diabetes over the study period.<\/p>\n
Diabetes was also clearly linked with higher risk of cancers of the liver, pancreas , uterus , penis , kidney , gallbladder and bile ducts, stomach, and bladder.<\/p>\n
There was evidence that those with diabetes were at a reduced risk of prostate cancer (18 per cent) compared to their peers without diabetes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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