A new research has revealed that people suffering from type-2 diabetes are more prone to 24 types of cancer.

Kari Hemminki of DKFZ joined hands with fellow workers in Sweden and the US to conduct the key research ever on cancer risks of people having type 2 diabetes.

The research comprised 125,126 Swedish people who had been hospitalized because of troubles linked with type 2 diabetes.

The researchers compared the cancer incidence in these sufferers with that of the general population in Sweden.

The research scale also made it possible, for the first time, to measure correlations between diabetes and less common cancer types.

They found that individuals suffering from type 2 diabetes are at higher risk of having 24 types of cancer.

The major risk elevation was set up for pancreatic and liver cell cancers. The rate of these cancers in people with type 2 diabetes is elevated by factor six and 4.25 respectively compared to the general population.

Besides, the research confirmed an observation suggesting that individuals with type-2 diabetes have a significantly lower rate of prostate cancer.

This was particularly apparent in diabetes patients with a family history of the disease. The more family members are affected by diabetes, the lower is the personal prostate cancer risk.

Hemminki said, "Right now, we can only speculate about the causes. Possibly, a lower level of male sex hormones in diabetics may be among the factors that are responsible for this."
(With Inputs from Agencies)