Cancer Surgery, Diabetes & Mortality

In a systematic review and meta-analysis appearing in the April 2010 edition of Diabetes Care, researchers conclude that "cancer patients with preexisting diabetes are about 50% more likely to die after surgery than their nondiabetic counterparts".

The abstract of this article, Postoperative Mortality in Cancer Patients With Preexisting Diabetes, can be found online at: http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/33/4/931