Diabetes raises risk of liver cancer 2-3 times-study
Reuters AlertNet - Diabetes raises risk of liver cancer 2-3 times-study: "Patients suffering from diabetes could be two to three times more likely to develop cancer of the liver, researchers said on Tuesday.
Chronic infections with hepatitis C and B, cirrhosis and a family history of the illness are risk factors for liver cancer but even without any of these, diabetics have higher odds of getting the disease.
'Diabetes is associated with a two-to-three-fold increase in the risk of liver cancer, regardless of the presence of other major risk factors,' said Dr Hashem El-Serag, an epidemiologist at the Houston Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Texas.
But he added that the cancer is very rare and the overall risk to a diabetes patient is low."
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