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ea0049ep438 | Diabetes (to include epidemiology, pathophysiology) | ECE2017

Site-specific cancer risk in people with type 2 diabetes: Nationwide population-based cohort study in Korea

Cho Du-Hyong , Jang Ju-Young , Kim Suk Kyeong , Kim Dong-Lim , Song Kee-Ho

Background: Many studies indicated an increased cancer incidence and cancer mortality in subjects with diabetes mellitus. But most of studies have been surveyed in western countries and have problems in applying the results to Korean. We aimed to evaluate the site specific cancer risk of diabetic patients in Korea over 30 years, and investigate causal relationship and temporal relationship by analyzing the organ-specific cancer risk in diabetics according to duration.<p cl...