/newsroom/taxonomy/term/3303/all en /newsroom/channels/news/diabetes-drug-found-not-cause-pancreatic-cancer-259218 <p><em><span><b>By Tod Hoffman, <a href="http://www.ladydavis.ca/en/home">Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research</a></b></span></em></p> <p><span>The use of incretin-based drugs is not associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to a study published in the latest issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ).</span></p> <p>The research was conducted by the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES), which used the health records of almost 1 million patients with types 2 diabetes.</p> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:09:23 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 25341 at /newsroom /newsroom/samy-suissa Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23692 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/tramadol-and-risk-hospitalization-hypoglycemia-240615 Mon, 08 Dec 2014 20:59:20 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 21721 at /newsroom