Compared with their nondiabetic counterparts , cancer patients with preexisting diabetes are ∼50 % more likely to die after surgery .
OBJECTIVE Diabetes appears to increase risk for some cancers , but the association between preexisting diabetes and  postoperative mortality in cancer patients is less clear .
Our objective was to systematic ally review postoperative mortality in cancer patients with and without preexisting diabetes and summarize results using meta- analysis .
Morbidity and Mortality After Radical and Palliative Pancreatic Cancer Surgery Risk Factors Influencing the Short‐Term Results
OBJECTIVE To analyze the  morbidity and mortality after radical and palliative pancreatic cancer surgery in Norway , especially the risk factors . SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA A prospect i ve multicenter study between 1984 - 1987 including only histologically or cytologically verified adenocarcinoma of the pancreas ( N = 442 ) or the papilla of Vater ( N = 30 ) ; 84 patients ( 19 % ) with pancreatic carcinoma and 24 patients ( 80 % ) with papilla carcinoma underwent radical operations .  A palliative procedure was performed in 252 patients ( 53 % ) . METHODS Clinical data , surgical procedures and the following morbidity and mortality were recorded on st and ardized forms . The risk factors were analyzed by a logistic multiple regression model . RESULTS The morbidity , reoperation , and mortality rates were 43 , 18 , and 11 % after radical surgery and 23 , 4 , and 14 % after palliative surgery .  Karnofsky 's index was the sole independent risk factor for death after radical surgery .  Splenectomy , age , and TNM stage influenced morbidity . Diabetes , Karnofsky 's index , and liver metastases were risk factors in palliative surgery . CONCLUSIONS The morbidity and mortality risks were comparable between total pancreatectomy and a Whipple 's procedure and between biliary and a double bypass . Preoperative biliary drainage had no impact on the risks and may be ab and oned . High age is a relative and a low Karnofsky 's index an absolute contraindication for radical surgery . Nonsurgical palliation of jaundice should be considered according to the presence of independent risk factors
Compared with their nondiabetic counterparts , cancer patients with preexisting diabetes are ∼50 % more likely to die after surgery .
OBJECTIVE Diabetes appears to increase risk for some cancers , but the association between preexisting diabetes and  postoperative mortality in cancer patients is less clear .
Our objective was to systematic ally review postoperative mortality in cancer patients with and without preexisting diabetes and summarize results using meta- analysis .