A similar trend was observed for pancreatic cancer diagnoses: people with blood types A, B, and AB had a higher risk.
Meanwhile, blood type O has been shown to be associated with a reduced risk of various types of colon cancer.
However, Dr. Sanjay Aggarwal, a general practitioner at the Delhi Holistic Care Centre, recently said, “It might be more accurate to say that people with blood type O have a lower risk of pancreatic cancer, given the scientific work on bacterial infections.”