Insulin-like Hormones Have Different Effects on Men and Women

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New research shows insulin-like hormones in type two diabetes have different effects on men and women.

For men, it appears to reduce the risk of prostate cancer.

But for women, it may double the risk of female genital and other cancers.

Researchers from Tel Aviv University looked at nearly seventeen thousand diabetics.

They differentiated between men and women and defined the relative cancer risks for each group.

When research started in two thousand. And none of the subjects had a history of cancer.

Eight years later. Nearly seventeen hundred cases of different cancers occurred among people with diabetes.

Analysts compared those numbers to the occurrences of the same cancers in the healthy non-diabetic population.

Men with diabetes were nearly considerably less likely to contract prostate cancer.

However the interaction of diabetes and female hormones appeared to make certain organs more receptive to certain kinds of cancer.

Study authors encourage diabetic women to be screened for cancer earlier and more often than the general population.

The findings can be found in the journal “Cancer Causes and Control.”