ReviewCurrent diabetes reports2013
The links between insulin resistance, diabetes, and cancer.
Review in Current diabetes reports, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 95 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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95 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity as Risk Factors for Bladder Cancer Prognosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021Pooled it
- Comparison of tumour and serum specific microRNA changes dissecting their role in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a meta-analysis.BMC cancer · 2019Pooled it
- Circulating Resistin Levels and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Meta-Analysis.BioMed research international · 2016Pooled it
- Metabolomics and cancer preventive behaviors in the BC Generations Project.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- Association between HOMA-IR and Frailty among U.S. Middle-aged and Elderly Population.Scientific reports · 2019Trial
- Obesity as a risk factor for acute lymphoblastic leukemia in individuals younger than 20 years across 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2021: a benchmarking global analysis.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2026Article
- Immunometabolic Dysregulation in Obesity: Integrating Macrophage Polarization, Metabolic Reprogramming, and Gut Microbiota Crosstalk.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2026Review
- Diabetes and Cancer-Specific Survival: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study Across Multiple Cancer Sites.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Article
- The Insulin-Urothelial Axis: Evaluating Insulin Resistance as a Convergent Driver of Bladder Cancer Across Diverse Risk Factor Profiles.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Association of four non-insulin-based insulin resistance surrogate markers with colorectal cancer risk: a large-scale prospective cohort study using the UK Biobank.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- A metabolic marker-based diagnostic model for precancerous and malignant endometrial lesions in insulin-resistant PCOS women with sonographically suspected endometrial polyps.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Hepatic IR and IGF1R signaling govern distinct metabolic and carcinogenic processes upon PTEN deficiency in the liver.JHEP reports : innovation in hepatology · 2025Article
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- A risk-stratified model for predicting endometrial atypical hyperplasia and cancer to guide biopsy decisions in asymptomatic postmenopausal women.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Sources of variation in the serum metabolome of female participants of the HUNT2 study.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Genome-wide discovery and integrative genomic characterization of insulin resistance loci using serum triglycerides to HDL-cholesterol ratio as a proxy.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- Human Aging and Age-Related Diseases: From Underlying Mechanisms to Pro-Longevity Interventions.Aging and disease · 2024Review
- The prognostic utility of temporalis muscle thickness measured on magnetic resonance scans in patients with intra-axial malignant brain tumours: A systematic review and meta-analysis.World neurosurgery: X · 2024Review
- Evaluation of the lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA ceRNA network in lungs of miR-147Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
35 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
The growing epidemic of obesity has resulted in a large increase in multiple related diseases. Recent evidence has strengthened the proposed synergistic relationship between obesity-related insulin resistance (IR) and/or diabetes mellitus (DM) and cancer. Within the past year, many studies have examined this relationship. Although the precise mechanisms and pathways are uncertain, it is becoming clear that hyperinsulinemia and possibly sustained hyperglycemia are important regulators of not only the development of cancer but also of treatment outcome. Further, clinical decision-making regarding the treatment of choice for DM will likely be impacted as we learn more about the non-metabolic effects of the available hyperglycemic agents. In our review, we endeavored to synthesize the recent literature and provide a concise view of the journey from macro-level clinical associations to specific mechanistic relationships being elucidated in cell lines and animal models.
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