Diabetes and Colorectal Cancer
2010-06-06
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Diabetes and Colorectal Cancer
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Welcome to Public Health Moment from the University of Minnesota. Older women with diabetes are more than twice as likely to develop colorectal cancer. That’s according to a Mayo Clinic study of data involving nearly 40,000 women. Kristin Anderson, a University of Minnesota cancer epidemiologist, was one of the study’s researchers. <Anderson: “These women were initially surveyed in 1986 about basic health questions and lifestyle factors. And they’ve been followed ever since for cancer and other health end points. The data from this study show what we’ve seen before: They provide further evidence that diabetes is a risk factor for colorectal cancer.” Anderson says the results do not change screening recommendations for individuals, but provide scientists with more evidence to explore. <Anderson: “These findings are really most important to other scientists because they may give us clues as to why diabetes is associated with colon cancer. And if we understood this it might give us tools to prevent colon cancer more effectively. The recommendations currently in place are not changed by these data. People who are age 50 or older should talk to their doctor about getting screened for colorectal cancer.”> For John Finnegan and Public Health Moment, I’m Mark Engebretson.
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Engebretson, Mark; Kristin Anderson. (2010). Diabetes and Colorectal Cancer. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/257652.
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