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Article: Study adds still another worry for diabetics: colon cancer risk.
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- AZ Daily Star
- Article date:
- September 13, 2006
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Byline: Carla McClain
Sep. 13--PEOPLE BATTLING DIABETES -- a disease known to trigger heart disease, kidney failure, blindness and nerve damage -- now have another problem to worry about: colon cancer. A series of recent studies is confirming an alarming link between the most common form of diabetes, known as type 2, and a significantly greater chance of developing cancer of the large bowel. The surprising link is especially important to Southern Arizonans, who suffer some of the highest type 2 diabetes rates in the world, mostly among minorities. Most affected are American Indians in this region, with the Tohono O'odham and Pascua Yaqui tribes have ...
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