Endometrial cancer
Diabetes linked to endometrial cancer risk
Type 2 diabetes is associated with cancer of the lining of the uterus (endometrial cancer), regardless of the presence of most other risk factors, study findings suggest.
“A positive association has been observed in nearly all studies of type 2 diabetes in relation to the incidence of endometrial cancer,” Dr. Babette S. Saltzman, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, and colleagues note in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
“Given the adverse effect of obesity on the incidence of both diabetes and endometrial cancer, investigators have adjusted for obesity in a number of these studies,” they note. “To varying degrees, all found that diabetes was independently associated with endometrial cancer.”
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