Diabetes Could Raise Cancer Risk Because Of How High Blood Sugar Levels Affect Dna
A higher level of blood glucose appears to spike how much damage DNA suffers, according to researchers at City of Hope National Medical Center. Too much glucose in the blood also made DNA strands more prone to breaking, and stood in the way of it being repaired. This, the team thinks, could lead to what is known as genomic instability: mutations that are characteristic of the majority of cancers....