IN BRIEF (Page 19)

Cancer check must for diabetics

Doctors recommend that diabetics undergo regular cancer screenings because not only are they at greater risk of developing kidney and circulatory disease, they are also at greater risk of developing tumors.

Colon cancer is 30 percent more common in diabetics than in people without the disease, according to Germany's Professional Association for Internists in Wiesbaden. Especially affected are patients with type 2, or adult onset, diabetes.