Although the correlation between having diabetes and developing cancer has been found in previous research, a new study indicates that the risk is different for men and women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A group of Chinese researchers used the medical data from a large Chinese cohort. The looked at the information for 410,191 adults who had type 2 diabetes but not cancer. Looking at the data from these same people one year later, they found that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 8,485 people had developed cancer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 men with type 2 diabetes had a 34% higher risk of cancer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 women had a 62% higher risk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 males with type 2 diabetes had a greater risk of up to 11 forms of cancer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 women with type 2 diabetes had a greater risk of up to 13 forms of cancer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 men with type 2 diabetes had a lower risk of esophageal cancer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 women with type 2 diabetes had a lower risk of gallbladder cancer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For men, the highest cancer risk was prostate cancer (86% greater risk than for men without type 2 diabetes). They also had an increased risk for skin, lung, pancreatic, liver, kidney, thyroid, stomach and colorectal cancer, as well as leukemia and lymphoma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For women, the highest cancer risk was nasopharyngeal cancer (twofold compared to women without type 2 diabetes). Women also had an increased risk for leukemia, lymphoma and colorectal cancer, as well as cancer of the thyroid, liver, esophagus, pancreas, uterus, breast, cervix, lungs and stomach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Access to the database certainly made the research easier in terms of gathering information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Shanghai Hospital Link Center has collected clinical information from the main general and specialized hospitals and created a centralized data repository for all residents in Shanghai since 2013,\u201d explains Bin Cui, co-author of the study. \u201cBased on this database, our research could be carried out smoothly and efficiently.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The research paper was published in the Journal of Diabetes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Although the correlation between having diabetes and developing cancer has been found in previous research, a new study indicates that the risk is different for men and women. Diabetes and cancer risk\u2014by gender A group of Chinese researchers used the medical data from a large Chinese cohort. The looked at the information for 410,191 adults […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[753,690],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diabetes","category-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The benefits of the database<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n