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In the past few days there have been a few news reports<\/a> announcing that diabetes reduces the risk of cancer among men.\u00a0 Cancer is a very big concern of mine. In the last few years most of my mother\u2019s friends have had one kind of cancer or another and only some have survived. But my fears of cancer started much earlier. My father died of Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma when I was 4 years old and ever since then I have worried that I would get some form of cancer. I know that Hodgkin\u2019s disease is not hereditary, but for some reason that has never made me feel much better about it.<\/p>\n

When diagnosed with diabetes I was so relieved it wasn\u2019t cancer, it didn\u2019t get me down right away (of course it did later on when I realized what I was in for).<\/p>\n

So when I saw the headlines about diabetes reducing cancer risk, most of which didn\u2019t specify the kind of diabetes, I was kind of happy.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the flip side is that the headlines also said that diabetes increases women\u2019s cancer risk.\u00a0 And that is definitely nothing to be smiling about.<\/p>\n

Still, it was good to read that the risk of prostate cancer was reduced by 47% in men with diabetes. This new study from Tel Aviv University has found that diabetes actually protects men from some forms of cancer.<\/p>\n

But there is one problem. Diabetes in this study meant type 2 diabetes, and I am a type 1. Type 1 diabetics share some of the symptoms, treatments and complications with type 2 diabetics, but it is a very different condition. Whereas type 1\u2019s produce no insulin, type 2\u2019s usually over-produce insulin,\u00a0 and this apparently causes insulin-like hormones to circulate around the body which protect men from some forms of cancer.<\/p>\n

So I guess I haven\u2019t found a new perk of diabetes and I still have to worry, same as before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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