Paul Saladino· MD
what is going to increase your chance of having cancer obesity insulin resistance are the first ones
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what is going to increase your chance of having cancer obesity insulin resistance are the first ones
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rates of cancer are higher in diabetics yet we are led to believe that it was the red meat in this one study that was the causative Factor you can see here from a 2015 paper that obesity is associated with cancer of the esophagus and of the endometrium for women and also with colon cancer so there's really no question that obesity diabetes the insulin resistance syndrome is associated with cancer
obesity itself is associated with increased rates of cancer and there are many other papers which corroborate the notion the diabetes is associated with an increased rate of cancer as well consider this table of meta-analyzes of the relative risk of cancer in diabetic patients relative risks are pretty high especially in liver and pancreas but we can go by organs the relative risk of cancer in the liver is 2.5 the relative risk of colon related cancers is 1.3 to 1.4 clearly rates of cancer are higher in diabetics