A Danish study conducted by the University of Copenhagen has found that some common types of cancers increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D), with elevated risks of mortality for patients that do develop T2D following a cancer diagnosis.
“Our study demonstrates that there is an elevated risk of developing diabetes if a person is affected by lung, pancreatic, breast, brain, urinary tract or uterine cancers,” said co-author of the study Associate Prof. Lykke Sylow.
As part of the study, researchers examined a Danish data set from 2000 to 2015 consisting of 112 million blood samples from 1.3 million Danes, of whom more than 50,000 developed cancer….