Article: Montreal study links diabetes with cancer

Montreal study links diabetes with cancer

BRIAN DALY
CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL - Diabetic men are more likely than healthy men to develop
pancreatic and liver cancer, indicates a study that suggests a
potentially fatal complication linked to the insulin deficiency.

University of Montreal researchers found diabetic men were three times
more likely to develop liver cancer and twice as likely to develop
pancreatic cancer compared with healthy subjects.

The sobering findings add to well-documented complications from
diabetes such as heart disease, blindness and kidney damage.

Dr. Marie-Claude Rousseau's study, based on data compiled from cancer
patients and healthy subjects in the 1980s, was presented at the recent
Frontiers in Cancer Research Prevention meeting in Seattle.

The findings are consistent with those in a U.S. study and another in
Europe which highlight the potentially fatal effects of diabetes and
its link to cancer.

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