How does being diabetic effect your treatments for breast cancer if at all?
Just found out my grandma has breast cancer in both breasts and she is a diabetic and I'm scared that that could have an effect on her treatments. Just wanted to find out some more information
a good friend of mine has type 1 diabetes for the last 45 years and is now having problems with ovarian cancer.
the cancer it self produces an insulin like action that makes the glucose numbers go down, and the patient to have to use less insulins.
but the treatments don't necessarily help diabetics either. the chemo makes them so sick they cannot eat, so they must have whatever food they can keep on their stomachs reguardless of whether it is good for diabetics or not.
Your grandmother should be on insulins to help control the glucose numbers while she is undergoing the treatments for the cancers. She is lucky to have both these in the 21st century! Treatments are much better than they were only 25 years ago.
Much good luck to your grandmother beating this.
powered by Yahoo Answers
Posted in diabetic
June 18th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
a good friend of mine has type 1 diabetes for the last 45 years and is now having problems with ovarian cancer.
the cancer it self produces an insulin like action that makes the glucose numbers go down, and the patient to have to use less insulins.
but the treatments don't necessarily help diabetics either. the chemo makes them so sick they cannot eat, so they must have whatever food they can keep on their stomachs reguardless of whether it is good for diabetics or not.
Your grandmother should be on insulins to help control the glucose numbers while she is undergoing the treatments for the cancers. She is lucky to have both these in the 21st century! Treatments are much better than they were only 25 years ago.
Much good luck to your grandmother beating this.
References :