Pancreatic cancer and diabetes: A two-way relationship in the perspective of diabetologist

Diabetes is a risk factor for pancreatic cancer as roughly half of all patients with pancreatic cancer are found to have diabetes at time of diagnosis. Moreover, an around 2-fold risk of pancreatic malignancy in diabetic patients has even be recently resulted from two meta-analysis. Actually, there is a bidirectional association between the two entities that implies a complex and reverse causality. In fact, while the risk for pancreatic cancer...