ABSTRACT
Diabetes Mellitus More than 50% of patients who present with pancreatic cancer have diabetes mellitus, and in most patients, diabetes is diagnosed within 2 years after the diagnosis of cancer. Some but not all of the patients are insulin-dependent, and in some, diabetes is diagnosed at the same time as pancreatic cancer. The precise risk of pancreatic cancer in patients with new-onset diabetes is not well defined, but according to a meta-analysis, the risk of pancreatic cancer developing in patients who have had diabetes for more than 1 year is doubled.
