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Pancreatic cancer in type 1 and young-onset diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Stevens RJ, Roddam AW, Beral V

Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Richard Doll Building, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK. richard.stevens@ceu.ox.ac.uk

We conducted a systematic review of the risk of pancreatic cancer in people with type I and young-onset diabetes. In three cohort and six case-control studies, the relative risk for pancreatic cancer in people with (vs without) diabetes was 2.00 (95% confidence interval 1.37-3.01) based on 39 cases with diabetes.

Published 7 February 2007 in Br J Cancer, 96(3): 507-9.
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