Oncology

Nearly 600,000 cancer cases in the UK could have been avoided in the last five years if people had healthier lifestyles according to Cancer Research UK…. Overall, experts say that more than four in 10 cancers could be prevented by changes to lifestyle. With health services already overstretched and people …

High glucose, obesity studied for possible link to cancer development… The findings highlight the importance of screening for carcinomas in patients with diabetes to aid early detection and reduce premature mortality, say the researchers. The Australian researchers found that the highest excess risks were observed for cancers of the pancreas, …

Risk found unaffected by prolonged exposure to pioglitazone… According to a recent study of more than one million people published in Diabetologia, the diabetes medications pioglitazone (Actos) and rosiglitazone (Avandia) do not appear to have an association with bladder cancer. It is known that bladder tumors overexpress transcription factor called …

Lab models that develop diabetes and cancer and that lacked Sirtuin 3 also developed pulmonary hypertension… A University of Alberta team has discovered a protein that is important in the development of pulmonary hypertension which is caused by the narrowing of the blood vessels in the lungs due to excessive …

Low HDL increases the risk of heart disease but does it also increase the risk of cancer?…

The meta-analysis also showed risks for certain cancers increased 22% with a prediabetes diagnosis…. 

Higher BMI increased individuals’ risks for 10 common cancers, according to results of a population-based cohort study conducted in the UK….

A 10-year analysis of patients with type 2 diabetes treated with pioglitazone (Actos) found no statistically significant increased risk of bladder cancer, either with any exposure or for long duration of use….

Why doesn’t this gene affect females in the same way?…

The risk for head and neck cancer (HNC) was almost 50% higher in patients with diabetes….