Older women with diabetes face higher risk for colon cancer

Sunday, May 2, 2010 - 12:51 in Health & Medicine

NEW ORLEANS -- A research team led by Mayo Clinic physicians has found that older women with diabetes face a more than doubled risk for some types of colorectal cancer. The findings are being presented at Digestive Disease Week 2010, the annual meeting of the American Gastroenterological Association.

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