Erschienen in:
01.08.2010 | Commentary
Cancer and diabetes: are we ready for prime time?
verfasst von:
U. Smith, E. A. M. Gale
Erschienen in:
Diabetologia
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Ausgabe 8/2010
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Excerpt
From time to time workers in apparently unrelated fields look sideways to discover that others are working on the same problem from a different angle. This happened recently when investigators in diabetes and cancer found that they were exploring much the same territory, a discovery triggered in part by publications in this journal last year [
1‐
5]. Controversial though some of the reports have proved, the effect has been an explosion of interest in this previously underexplored area. The result has been an increased appreciation of the intimate connection between metabolism, cell growth and turnover, together with new observations that may come to influence clinical management of diabetes. …