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Diabetes Hikes Risk Of Liver, Pancreatic Cancers
Diabetes Hikes Risk Of Liver, Pancreatic Cancers -- Posted by Gumbo on 11-21-04 11:43
Diabetes Hikes Risk Of Liver, Pancreatic Cancers
Oct. 17, 2004
SEATTLE (American Association for Cancer Research) -- People with diabetes
mellitus have three to four times the risk of developing liver cancer, and
more than twice the risk of developing pancreatic cancer than non-diabetic
individuals, according to research presented today at the Third Annual
Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Meeting in Seattle.
Marie-Claude Rousseau, lead author on the study, compared 3,288 men
diagnosed with 12 different cancer types to 509 healthy individuals, in
order to determine whether those reporting a prior diagnosis of diabetes
were more likely to have cancer.
"Among those who reported being diabetic, there was a three-fold increased
risk for liver cancer," said Rousseau, a postdoctoral fellow in Epidemiology
at the Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
"When we looked at the individuals who reported taking medication for their
diabetes, the risk for liver cancer increased to almost four-fold, compared
to individuals who were not diabetic."
Rousseau noted that these findings were independent of the body mass index
of the individuals.
In this study, diabetics did not have increased risks for other cancer
types, including melanoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, cancers of the esophagus,
stomach, colon, rectum, lung, prostate, bladder, and kidney.
Rousseau, who is funded by the Canadian Cancer Society through the National
Cancer Institute of Canada, conducted this research with her colleagues Jack
Siemiatycki at the Université de Montréal, and Marie-Élise Parent, at the
INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Laval, Quebec, Canada.
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