糖尿病與癌症有關連

Last month the Yomiuri News on-line reported the following:

がん発症リスク、糖尿病で高まる…学会の合同委

日本糖尿病学会と日本癌(がん)学会は１４日、糖尿病が、がんの発症リスクを高める要因になると発表した。

　両学会は、野菜不足や過剰な飲酒、運動不足、喫煙は、糖尿病とがんに共通する危険因子だとし、適切な生活習慣を身につけるよう、呼び掛けている。

　両学会は合同委員会を設立し、２０１１年から糖尿病とがん発症との関係について検討を続けてきた。

　全国各地で実施された男性約１５万人、女性約１８万人分の健康状態の追跡調査のデータを解析。男性約２万人、女性約１万３０００人が、がんになったが、糖尿病の人は、そうでない人に比べ、がんになるリスクが男女とも１・２倍高かった。

　中でも、大腸がんは１・４倍、肝臓がんと膵臓(すいぞう)がんは、それぞれ約２倍、高かった。子宮がんや膀胱(ぼうこう)がんも、糖尿病になるとがんのリスクが高まる傾向がみられた。一方、乳がん、前立腺がんは糖尿病との関連はみられなかった。

（2013年5月14日19時43分 読売新聞）

(試譯文)

The Japan Diabetes Society and the Japanese Cancer (gan) Society announced on the 14th (May) that diabetes had become a factor which could raise the risk of cancer development symptoms.

    According to both societies, it was supposed that the shortage of vegetables, superfluous drinking and the lack of exercise, together with smoking were risk factors common to diabetes and cancer. They were appealing to learn to lead a suitable lifestyle.

Both societies established a joint committee, from 2011 they had continued the examination on the relation between diabetes and the onset of the cancer.

Analysis was done on the data of a follow-up survey carried out all over the country on the health condition of about 150,000 men and about 180,000 women. While about 20,000 men and about 13,000 women had developed a cancer, a diabetic person had 1.2 times higher risk of getting cancer compared to men and women who were not diabetic.

Especially, colorectal cancer 1.4 times; liver cancer and pancreatic cancer were about twice as high. When there was the uterine cancer or the bladder (baukou) cancer, an increase in the risk tendency to become diabetes was seen. On the other hand, as for the breast cancer and the prostate cancer, the relation with diabetes was not found.

This is a useful medical founding. Situation in other societies may be similar.