Diabetes, weight change and pancreatic cancer risk

What The Study Did: Researchers investigated an association between the duration of diabetes and recent weight loss with subsequent risk of pancreatic cancer in this observational study.

Authors: Chen Yuan, Sc.D., of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.2948)

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