Diabetes is linked to an increased risk of developing
cancer, and now researchers have performed a unique meta-analysis that excludes
all other causes of death and found that diabetic patients not only have an
increased risk of developing breast and colon cancer but an even higher risk of
dying from them.
Dr Kirstin De Bruijn will tell the 2013 European Cancer
Congress (ECC2013)[1], today (Sunday), that previous studies have examined the
association between diabetes and dying from cancer but death from specific
types of cancer has not been well-studied. “Our meta-analysis is the first to
combine incidence and death from breast and colon cancer, while excluding all
other causes of death. We have investigated the link between diabetes and the
risk of developing as well as the risk of dying from these cancers,” she will
say.