There is a relationship between diabetes, obesity and cancer?

The discussion has gone on for decades, if diabetics are at increased risk of pancreatic cancer than non-diabetics. In 1996, researchers at Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden, reported a higher risk than normal of liver cancer in patients with diabetes. His article was published in the Journal of National Cancer Institute.

More than 150,000 patients hospitalized with diabetes from 1964 through to1983 are included in the study. After dischargewere followed through the Swedish Cancer Registry. The rate of diagnosis of liver cancer was over 4% higher in patients with diabetes than the general population.

Researchers at the German Center for Cancer Research in Heidelberg considered more at risk of cancer in diabetic patients. His work was published in May 2010 in the Journal oncologist. Subjects were recruited in the study by the Swedish Hospital Registry highest since 19642007. Cancer Registry were obtained from the Swedish Cancer Registry. Twenty-four cancers had a higher risk than normal for the general population in Sweden.

Pancreatic cancer ... the risk for diabetics was more than 6 times that of the general population
Liver cancer ... the risk was more than 4 times greater in diabetics than in the general population
Tumors of the throat, esophagus, colon, rectum, lung, cervix, uterus, ovaries and kidneys were also seen more in diabetics than in the general population. The esophagus is a tube that connects the mouth to the stomach
prostate cancer, surprisingly, actually showed a lower risk in diabetics

Approximately 24,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with throat cancer each year. In 2009 16.470 new cases of esophageal cancer were diagnosed and 14,530 deaths were attributed to esophageal> Cancer. The same year, 106,100 new cases of colon cancer and 40.870 new cases of rectal cancer were diagnosed.

Lung cancer kills more Americans than any other, killing more than 158,000 in 2006
The same year, nearly 12,000 women were diagnosed with cervical cancer
42,610 cases of cervical cancer were diagnosed in the U.S. in 2009
in 2006 about 20,000 American women were diagnosed with ovarian cancer
Haveabout 57,000 new cases of kidney cancer diagnosed in 2009

This is scary. but unfortunately, due to increased risk of many types of cancer in type 1 and type 2 diabetes much more study is needed. Diabetes is often linked to obesity, and obesity is known to increase cancer risk. The researchers also believe the high levels of blood sugar may also be involved.

The lesson for all those with diabetes, type 1 or 2, is to ensure the levels of blood sugar are beingcontrol by eating healthy and exercising every day to reduce the risk of developing other diseases.

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