These diseases go hand in hand. Diabetes are more likely to develop cancer, and some people find that cancer is detected within as little as three months of being diagnosed with diabetes, the researchers warn.
Researchers from the University of Toronto warn that people with diabetes are also predisposed to developing certain types of cancer. Americans have familiarized themselves with the health status of more than one million adult diabetics. “The analysis showed that with the detection of diabetes, the risk of developing colorectal cancer is 1,23 times greater in 10 years,” said Dr. Iliana Lega of the University of Toronto, who led the research team.
In some people, cancer is detected within as little as three months after being diagnosed with diabetes. However, it is not related to such a rapid development of neoplastic disease. Rather, it is because when diabetes is diagnosed, patients are screened more often and, incidentally, are diagnosed with cancer that has been developing over the years.
It happens that cancer is detected first, and then diabetes mellitus, says Dr. Lega. He adds that both conditions have common causes. One of them is lifestyle. This is most evident in the case of diabetes and colon cancer. The risk of both diseases is increased by obesity, a busy lifestyle, alcohol abuse, smoking and an improper diet, including, above all, too much consumption of processed red meat.
– We know that lifestyle changes protect against diabetes and can inhibit it once it develops. Similarly, changing the lifestyle reduces the risk of cancer and improves the prognosis when it develops – emphasizes Dr. Lega.
The results of the research were published in the pages of the American Cancer Society (ASC) “Cancer”.