title: Diabetes mellitus: Possible risk and promoting factors of cholangiocarcinoma: Association of diabetes mellitus and cholangiocarcinoma.
abstract: The highest incidence of Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), a malignancy of bile duct epithelia, is in the Northeast of Thailand. The liver fluke, Opisthorchis viverrini, is the known risk factor for CCA development in this region. Approximately 1% of O. viverrini infected individuals develop CCA. There could be other factors that influence the cholangiocarcinogenesis particularly in the O. viverrini infected individuals. The global epidemiological studies of risk factors for CCA in non-O. viverrini related patients indicated diabetes mellitus (DM) as a risk factor of CCA. The molecular studies in many cancers indicated that high levels of glucose, insulin and an obese condition directly and indirectly enhanced growth of cancers. For O. viverrini associated CCA, there is limited information related to DM and CCA development. High mortality rates of CCA and DM, however, were reported in the same geographical areas of northeastern Thailand. Whether DM is a factor that enhances CCA development in O. viverrini infected individuals or promotes CCA progression are discussed in a perspective of epidemiological and molecular studies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand; Liver Fluke and Cholangiocarcinoma Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand.
authors.forename: Charupong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Saengboonmee
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand; Liver Fluke and Cholangiocarcinoma Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand.
authors.forename: Wunchana
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Seubwai
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand; Liver Fluke and Cholangiocarcinoma Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand.
authors.forename: Chaisiri
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wongkham
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand; Liver Fluke and Cholangiocarcinoma Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand. Electronic address: sopit@kku.ac.th.
authors.forename: Sopit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wongkham
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001650:Bile Duct Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D001653:Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic / Q000473:pathology*; D018281:Cholangiocarcinoma / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D009889:Opisthorchiasis / Q000150:complications*; D009891:Opisthorchis; D012307:Risk Factors; D013785:Thailand
keywords: Cancer risk; Cholangiocarcinoma; Diabetes mellitus; Hyperglycemia; Opisthorchis viverrini