Breast Cancer Risk Increased in Early Diabetes

The smoke-fire-lose your breasts nexus.

Every medical student knows that correlation is not causality, but there is further damning evidence of an association between diabetes and risk for breast cancer, reported Swedish investigators here at the 34th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS).

A case-control study drawing on data from Sweden's extensive birth-to-death population registry and a national prescription registry showed that diabetes was associated with a nearly 40% increase in risk for breast cancer, reported Hakan Olsson, MD, a professor in the departments of oncology and cancer epidemiology at Lund University in Lund, Sweden.

And who tends to get diabetes more?

Fatsos.