HEIDELBERG, Germany, May 24 (UPI) — German, Swedish and U.S. researchers said they found a lower rate of prostate cancer among people with diabetes.

Study leader Kari Hemminki at Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres in Heidelberg said the researchers could only speculate about the causes.

“Possibly, a lower level of male sex hormones in diabetics may be among the factors that are responsible for this,” Hemminki said in a statement.

Hemminki and colleagues studied the cancer incidence in 125,126 Swedish citizens hospitalized due to type 2 diabetes complications as well as those of the general population in Sweden.

They also found higher risks of several cancers in those with type 2 diabetes — very significantly for pancreatic cancer and liver cell cancers….. (more…)