Diabetics May Have Hidden Pancreatic Cancer

[Granny M]

3. Possibly "reverse causation"

as it says further down in the article. They just don't know yet. What is really needed is a way of diagnosing pancreatic cancer in its early, unsymptomatic stage. Hopeful that the research on the blood biomarkers will pan out.

When we lived in Holland for a few years, one of our neighbours, a trim, active, previously healthy man, was diagnosed with diabetes. In a few months he got very ill (blamed it initially on eating the traditional New Year's oliebollen). Pancreatic cancer was diagnosed and he was gone in a matter of weeks. I always thought that cancer was probably there before the diabetes diagnosis.