Diabetics twice as likely to develop cancer, suggests new study

A new study published in the journal Diabetes Care revealed that diabetics are almost twice the risk of developing certain types of cancer compared to those without the disease: Dr. Chaoyang Li, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - in Atlanta, Ga., And his colleagues found that 16 percent of diabetic men and 17 percent of diabetic women to develop cancer, while only seven and ten percent of the total population, respectively, to develop it.

Diabetics twice as likely to develop cancer

"Significant association between cancer and diabetes does not surprise us," Dr. Lee is quoted as the recent Fox News piece. Dr. Li and his team surveyed 400,000 adults by phone, and after accounting for external factors such as age, race, and smoking and drinking habits, determined that they are diabetics more prone to develop colon, pancreas, rectum, bladder, kidney, breast and prostate cancer than the rest of the population.

The report explains that the most dramatic growth seen in the pancreatic cancer, as well as diabetic men, it seems 400% more likely to develop cancer than others, but women who have diabetes tend to have up to three times more likely to develop blood cancer than women without disease.

"The study] shows that a significant pool of American adults have diabetes and cancer," said Dr. Fred Brancati, professor at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., Which is not included in the study. "The authors rightly point out that these two conditions can only go out together, so it pays to consider them together."

Dr. Brancati research published in 2008. It turns out that the death rate from cancer is about 40 percent more than the general population of diabetics, as well, illustrating again the connection between diabetes and cancer risk is compounded.