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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Cancer patients who underwent radiation therapy as children are at greater risk of developing diabetes later in life, a finding that should prompt changes in treatment guidelines, French and British researchers said.
By age 45, 6.6 percent of those who had received radiation were diagnosed with diabetes, in which the body lacks or becomes resistant to the hormone insulin, according to the survey of more than 2,500 patients. That compared with 2.3 percent of those who hadn?t had radiation. The higher the dose, the more likely the children were to develop diabetes, the researchers wrote in The Lancet medical journal today.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...ients-at-greater-risk-of-diabetes-study-shows
As if things weren't tough enough!
By age 45, 6.6 percent of those who had received radiation were diagnosed with diabetes, in which the body lacks or becomes resistant to the hormone insulin, according to the survey of more than 2,500 patients. That compared with 2.3 percent of those who hadn?t had radiation. The higher the dose, the more likely the children were to develop diabetes, the researchers wrote in The Lancet medical journal today.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...ients-at-greater-risk-of-diabetes-study-shows
As if things weren't tough enough!