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UNC scientists coordinate study of link between insulin use and cancer in people with diabetes
Date:12/14/2009

rly enable us to provide a much better estimate of the safety of glargine in particular and insulin in general with regards to cancer risk."

The study plans to analyze data from about 400,000 people with diabetes, determine their use of diabetes treatments including insulin, and document the incidence of cancer. "We have recruited a truly exceptional group of scientists and resources from across the country to provide as definitive a resolution to the issue as possible over the next year and a half." said Buse.

The study is being funded by a research grant from the sanofi-aventis company. In addition to Buse, the UNC team coordinating the effort includes Til Sturmer, M.D., M.P.H. and Lisa LaVange, Ph.D. respectively from the Pharmacoepidemiology Program in the Department of Epidemiology and the Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center in the Department of Biostatistics at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health as well as collaborators from UNC's Translational and Clinical Sciences (TraCS) Institute, the academic home of the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA); UNC's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center; the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research; the Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy in the Eshelman School of Pharmacy and the UNC Diabetes Center in the School of Medicine. Scientists from the American Diabetes Association and the American Cancer Society are providing voluntary technical advice.


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Contact: Les Lang
llang@med.unc.edu
919-966-9366
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
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