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Mortality After Incident Cancer in People With and Without Type 2 Diabetes: Impact of metformin on survival.
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PMID:  22266734     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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OBJECTIVEType 2 diabetes is associated with an increased risk of several types of cancer and with reduced survival after cancer diagnosis. We examined the hypotheses that survival after a diagnosis of solid-tumor cancer is reduced in those with diabetes when compared with those without diabetes, and that treatment with metformin influences survival after cancer diagnosis.RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODSData were obtained from >350 U.K. primary care practices in a retrospective cohort study. All individuals with or without diabetes who developed a first tumor after January 1990 were identified and records were followed to December 2009. Diabetes was further stratified by treatment regimen. Cox proportional hazards models were used to compare all-cause mortality from all cancers and from specific cancers.RESULTSOf 112,408 eligible individuals, 8,392 (7.5%) had type 2 diabetes. Cancer mortality was increased in those with diabetes, compared with those without (hazard ratio 1.09 [95% CI 1.06-1.13]). Mortality was increased in those with breast (1.32 [1.17-1.49]) and prostate cancer (1.19 [1.08-1.31]) but decreased in lung cancer (0.84 [0.77-0.92]). When analyzed by diabetes therapy, mortality was increased relative to nondiabetes in those on monotherapy with sulfonylureas (1.13 [1.05-1.21]) or insulin (1.13 [1.01-1.27]) but reduced in those on metformin monotherapy (0.85 [0.78-0.93]).CONCLUSIONSThis study confirmed that type 2 diabetes was associated with poorer prognosis after incident cancer, but that the association varied according to diabetes therapy and cancer site. Metformin was associated with survival benefit both in comparison with other treatments for diabetes and in comparison with a nondiabetic population.
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Craig J Currie; Chris D Poole; Sara Jenkins-Jones; Edwin A M Gale; Jeffrey A Johnson; Christopher Ll Morgan
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Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2012-1-20
Journal Detail:
Title:  Diabetes care     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1935-5548     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2012 Jan 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2012-1-23     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
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Nlm Unique ID:  7805975     Medline TA:  Diabetes Care     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, U.K.
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