title: [Diabetes mellitus and pancreatic cancer - cause or result?].
abstract: Pancreatic cancer is a malignancy with a poor prognosis. Its increased incidence was observed in diabetic patients in the past. However, there is no evidence, whether diabetes is a risk factor for neoplastic transformation, or if it arises secondarily as a result of the tumor. The key is an early detection of cancer to perform pancreatectomy - the only possible curative therapy yet. This requires early diagnostic markers.Key words: diabetes mellitus - pancreatectomy - pancreatic cancer.
authors.forename: Pavel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Skrha