posted on 2023-10-02, 07:44authored byPrasoona Karra, Sheetal Hardikar, Maci Winn, Garnet L. Anderson, Benjamin Haaland, Benjamin Krick, Cynthia A. Thomson, Aladdin Shadyab, Juhua Luo, Nazmus Saquib, Howard D. Strickler, Rowan Chlebowski, Rhonda S. Arthur, Scott A. Summers, William L. Holland, Thunder Jalili, Mary C. Playdon
Supplemental Table 2 provides effect estimates for the association of incident diabetes and all-cause mortality among obesity-related cancer survivors and cancer-free individuals.
Funding
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
United States Department of Health and Human Services
University of Utah Drive Out Diabetes Seed Grant, a Larry H. Miller Family Wellness Initiative
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ARTICLE ABSTRACT
Individuals diagnosed with an obesity-related cancer (ORC survivors) are at an elevated risk of incident diabetes compared with cancer-free individuals, but whether this confers survival disadvantage is unknown.
We assessed the rate of incident diabetes in ORC survivors and evaluated the association of incident diabetes with all-cause and cancer-specific mortality among females with ORC in the Women's Health Initiative cohort (N = 14,651). Cox proportional hazards regression models stratified by exposure-risk periods (0–1, >1–3, >3–5, >5–7, and >7–10 years) from ORC diagnosis and time-varying exposure (diabetes) analyses were performed.
Among the ORC survivors, a total of 1.3% developed diabetes within ≤1 year of follow-up and 2.5%, 2.3%, 2.3%, and 3.6% at 1–3, 3–5, 5–7, and 7–10 years of follow-up, respectively, after an ORC diagnosis. The median survival for those diagnosed with diabetes within 1-year of cancer diagnosis and those with no diabetes diagnosis in that time frame was 8.8 [95% confidence interval (CI), 7.0–14.5) years and 16.6 (95% CI, 16.1–17.0) years, respectively. New-onset compared with no diabetes as a time-varying exposure was associated with higher risk of all-cause (HR, 1.27; 95% CI, 1.16–1.40) and cancer-specific (HR, 1.17; 95% CI, 0.99–1.38) mortality. When stratified by exposure-risk periods, incident diabetes in ≤1 year of follow-up was associated with higher all-cause (HR, 1.76; 95% CI, 1.40–2.20) and cancer-specific (HR0–1, 1.82; 95% CI, 1.28–2.57) mortality, compared with no diabetes diagnosis.
Incident diabetes was associated with worse cancer-specific and all-cause survival, particularly in the year after cancer diagnosis.
These findings draw attention to the importance of diabetes prevention efforts among cancer survivors to improve survival outcomes.