If the diabetes has a direct carcinogenetic effect?
Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 09:00
in Health & Medicine
The association of DM2 with solid tumours, and particularly with HCC, has been long suspected and several studies have reported increased mortality rates for neoplastic diseases in patients with DM2. However, the temporal relationship between onset of diabetes and development of HCC, and the clinical and metabolic characteristics of patients with DM2 and HCC have not been well examined...