A recent study by researchers at Tel Aviv University's Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine has discovered that diabetes may be the main cause for building up of cancer.

Diabetes is found to release insulin like hormones to flow freely throughout the body. And to their amazement, diabetes had a positive effect by decreasing the possibilities of prostrate cancer in men. But women showed a negative influence by increasing certain cancers in them.

Dr Gabriel Chodick of Tel Aviv University, along with Dr. Varda Shalev conducted the research together on 16,721 patients suffering from diabetes. With the help of this research, they concluded that the future prospects for the risks of cancer are both different for men as well as women. While men are away from the danger and can avoid the risks of cancer, female hormones when linked with diabetes have the ability to represent cancer in an excessive manner especially in organs like ovaries and uterus.

Dr Chodick further explained that this discovery should not be the reason to create unnecessary fright among women as the overall risks for women are low. However, he stressed on the fact that colon and ovarian cancers are serious and they should not be taken lightly.

Lastly, he suggested that the best opportunity to avoid diabetes completely is by adopting a high fibre, low carbohydrate diet and engaging oneself with physical exercise.