Cancer Correlates with Increased Risk of Later Onset of Type 2 Diabetes

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/06/cancer-correlates-with-increased-risk-of-later-onset-of-type-2-diabetes/

Researchers here note a correlation between cancer diagnosis and greater risk of later onset of type 2 diabetes. A reasonable guess is that this is mediated by the increased burden of cellular senescence produced by chemotherapy and radiotherapy, though, as the researchers point out, the widely different risks by cancer type may indicate that tumors are metabolically active in ways that specifically promote the metabolic dysfunction that leads to type 2 diabetes.

For patients with cancer, prevalent type 2 diabetes at the date of cancer diagnosis is associated with increased cance…

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