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Diabetes Survival & Mortality
Diabetes increases cancer mortality risk for some cancer types
September 5th, 2004
Diabetes increases the risk of cancer mortality for some types of cancer. According to recent research from the United States, "Several studies have suggested that diabetes mellitus may alter the risk of developing a variety of cancers, and the associations are biologically plausible. To learn more about the relation between diabetes and cancer mortality, the authors examined associations with selected cancers in a large, prospective US cohort of 467,922 men and 588,321 women who had no reported history of cancer at enrollment in 1982." "After 16 years of mortality follow-up, diabetes was significantly associated with fatal colon cancer in men...
Source: Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA (2004-09-05)
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