Based on this data, if you're a minority and you develop recent-onset diabetes, you should talk to your doctor about the implications of that for developing cancer, especially if you have any symptoms of pancreatic cancer.

Zev Wainberg

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What makes this study unique is both the size of it and the fact that it focused pretty exclusively on minority patient populations in the United States, and this population is at higher risk of illnesses like diabetes, especially poorly controlled diabetes.

It's very bidirectional, for example, are these patients who have pancreatic cancer developing diabetes as a result of their cancer, or vice versa ? Nobody is entirely sure.