{"id":215184,"date":"2026-02-19T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/insulin-resistance-is-a-risk-factor-for-cancer-says-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T05:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:40:10","slug":"insulin-resistance-is-a-risk-factor-for-cancer-says-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/insulin-resistance-is-a-risk-factor-for-cancer-says-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Insulin Resistance Is A Risk Factor For Cancer, Says AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Insulin Resistance Is A Risk Factor For Cancer, Says AI<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.oncology-central.com\/insulin-resistance-is-a-risk-factor-for-12-types-of-cancer-ai-suggests\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-02-19 05:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.oncology-central.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Original story from the\u00a0University of Tokyo<\/p>\n

A machine learning model that predicts insulin resistance implies a link to cancer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Insulin resistance \u2013 when the body doesn\u2019t properly respond to insulin, a hormone that helps control blood glucose levels \u2013 is one of the fundamental causes of diabetes. In addition to diabetes, it is widely known that insulin resistance can lead to cardiovascular, kidney and liver diseases. While insulin resistance is tightly associated with obesity, it has been difficult to evaluate insulin resistance itself in the clinic. For the first time, researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo (Japan), applied a machine learning-based prediction model of insulin resistance to half a million participants from the UK Biobank and demonstrated that insulin resistance is a risk factor for 12 types of cancer.<\/p>\n

Diabetes is a common cause for concern around the world. Its connection to insulin resistance is a familiar concept to many, but what is less well known is that resistance to insulin is also suggested to be a risk factor for several cancers. However, the human body is a complex thing, and ascertaining causal connections between diseases and issues within the body is far from easy. Medical researchers explore different ways to search for these connections, and an increasingly common tool in their arsenal is artificial intelligence, in particular machine learning.<\/p>\n

Yuta Hiraike, a researcher from the University of Tokyo Hospital, and his team have successfully used a machine learning tool they created to prove a link between insulin resistance and several kinds of cancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe recently made a tool, AI-IR, for predicting insulin resistance in individuals based on nine different pieces of medical information. It proved successful and made us think we could apply this tool to related concerns,\u201d commented Hiraike.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile a possible link between insulin resistance and cancer has been suggested, large-scale…<\/p>\n

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