title: The relationship between diabetes and pancreatic cancer.
abstract: About 80% of pancreatic cancer patients have glucose intolerance or frank diabetes. This observation has led to the following two hypotheses: i. pancreatic cancer causes the associated diabetes and ii. the conditions associated with diabetes promote the development of pancreatic cancer. Evidence supporting both hypotheses has been accumulated in previous studies. This article reviews these studies, especially those that have been conducted recently.
authors.affiliation: Surgery Department, Karolinska Institute at Huddinge University Hospital, 141 86 Stockholm, Sweden. feng.wang@cfss.ki.se
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Margery
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Herrington
authors.forename: Jörgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Larsson
authors.forename: Johan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Permert
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*