Increased risk of cancer death with type 2 diabetes, finds Asian study

Type 2 diabetes is associated with a 26% higher risk of death from any cancer, a large study of people living in east and south Asia has found.

Growing evidence indicates a link between type 2 diabetes and increased risk of cancer, but previous studies have been carried out in Western populations. Asian people are more susceptible to insulin resistance and have a higher prevalence of diabetes than white people at any given body mass index, so the researchers wondered whether cancer risk …