FRIDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) — People who have been
diagnosed with colon cancer have a poorer prognosis if they’re obese or
have type 2 diabetes, new research suggests.
Two new studies that looked at the impact that body-mass index (BMI)
and a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes had on survival rates after a colon
cancer diagnosis found that both factors influence whether or not someone
survives colorectal cancer. In addition, both studies found that deaths
from any cause, including heart disease, were also increased in those who
were obese or had type 2 diabetes.
Results of the studies were published online in the Journal of
Clinical Oncology.
“The message here is to avoid obesity and type 2 diabetes because they
have negative health outcomes. We don’t know for sure that losing weight
or increasing physical activity will help, but we know they’re good for
trying to avoid other diseases, like cardiovascular disease, that can come
up down the road,” said Dr. Jeffrey Meyerhardt, author of an accompanying
editorial in the same journal, and an associate professor of medicine at
the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
There are more than 1 million people who’ve survived a colon cancer
diagnosis
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