KevinMD July 14, 2024
I like to compare diabetes and cancer. Both are chronic illnesses with a trend of increasing new cases globally over the past decades, and both are expected to be among the leading diagnoses in the world with an estimated one-half billion people living with either diabetes or cancer by 2040.
The similarities don’t end there. Cancer and diabetes share risk factors: smoking, obesity, poor diet, and physical inactivity, to name a few. The risk of getting cancer increases with a diagnosis of diabetes—with some cancers the risk almost doubles. Diabetes damages the immune cells, B- and T-lymphocytes, that are key players in several lymphomas. Thus, the risk of T-cell lymphoma and leukemia increases with having diabetes.
Despite many similarities, one...
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