The Association of Recently Diagnosed Diabetes and Long-term Diabetes with Survival in Pancreatic Cancer Patients: A Pooled Analysis

Christie Y. Jeon, Donghui Li, Sean Cleary, Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon, Cristina Bosetti, Carlo La Vecchia, Miquel Porta, Adetunji T. Toriola, Rayjean J. Hung, Robert C. Kurtz, Sara H. Olson

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Abstract

Objectives It is unclear whether long-standing diabetes or new-onset pancreatogenic diabetes contributes to poor prognosis in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Methods We investigated the influence of diabetes diagnosed shortly before PDAC and long-term diabetes on overall survival in 2792 PDAC patients who had participated in 3 PDAC case-control studies in the Pancreatic Cancer Case-Control Consortium. There were 300 patients with long-term diabetes of more than 3 years' duration (11%) and 418 patients with recently diagnosed diabetes of 3-year duration or less (15%). We performed Cox regression to determine the association of long-term diabetes and recently diagnosed diabetes with overall survival, adjusting for study site, age, sex, race, stage of disease, surgery, chemotherapy, smoking history, and body mass index at diagnosis. Results In the overall population, neither long-term diabetes (hazard ratio [HR], 1.10; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.97-1.26) nor recently diagnosed diabetes (HR, 1.06; 95% CI, 0.94-1.18) was associated with shorter survival. When stratified by stage of disease, long-term diabetes was associated with 42% increase in rate of death in persons with resectable PDAC (HR, 1.42; 95% CI, 1.13-1.78), whereas it was not associated with survival in PDAC patients with more advanced disease. Conclusion Long-term diabetes was associated with increased rate of death in patients with resectable PDAC.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)314-320
Number of pages7
JournalPancreas
Volume47
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2018

Keywords

  • Diabetes
  • Pancreatic cancer
  • Pooled analysis
  • Survival

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Internal Medicine
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Hepatology
  • Endocrinology

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