Diabetes News – Newsletter for January 20, 2011

Breast cancer patients with diabetes ‘50pc more likely to die’

WASHINGTON – A comprehensive review of research, conducted by Johns Hopkins physicians, has found that breast cancer patients are nearly 50 percent more likely to die of any cause if they also have diabetes.

The authors also found that diabetics tend to be diagnosed with later-stage breast cancers and to receive altered, potentially less effective treatment …. Read the original article  : Breast cancer patients with diabetes ‘50pc more likely to die’.