¹Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Richard Doll Building, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK

Correspondence: Dr R Stevens, Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit, Richard Doll Building, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK; E-mail: richard.stevens@ceu.ox.ac.uk

Received 30 October 2006; Revised 29 November 2006; Accepted 30 November 2006; Published online 16 January 2007.

Abstract

We conducted a systematic review of the risk of pancreatic cancer in people with type 1 and young-onset diabetes. In three cohort and six case–control studies, the relative risk for pancreatic cancer in people with (vs without) diabetes was 2.00 (95% confidence interval 1.37–3.01) based on 39 cases with diabetes.