People With Diabetes Have Higher Risk for Cancer
According to a new study, people who have diabetes have at least a 10% higher risk for certain cancers than those who are not diabetic.
Compared to people without diabetes, diabetic men were more likely to report having colon, pancreas, rectum, urinary bladder, kidney or prostate cancer. For men, the greatest increase in risk was for pancreatic cancer, with 16 per 10,000 cases among diabetics and just two per 10,000 among non-diabetics. Diabetic women had more cases of breast cancer, leukemia or cancer of the womb.
