Type 2 diabetes associated with risk of aggressive breast cancer in black women

Type 2 diabetes associated with risk of aggressive breast cancer in black women

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women’s Health Weekly -- (Boston)-- African American women with type 2 diabetes (often referred to as adult-onset diabetes) are at a greater risk for developing breast cancer.

The findings appear in the journal Cancer Research.

Evidence has emerged in recent years that the two major subtypes of breast cancer--estrogen receptor positive (ER+) and estrogen receptor negative (ER-) breast cancer--differ in some causes. Thus, the investigators focused on whether type 2 diabetes had differing associations with ER+ and ER- cancer.

The research was based on data of 54,337 African American women enrolled in Boston University’s Black Women’s Health Study who …

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(2017-11-30), Type 2 diabetes associated with risk of aggressive breast cancer in black women, Women’s Health Weekly, 129, ISSN: 1532-4729, BUTTER® ID: 014742566