Posted on August 20, 2009 in Latest News
80% of pancreatic cancer patients are diabetic.And we know that Diabetes is a disease which takes place because of the mal function of the organ pancreas in our body.This article tries to understand whether there is a two way relationship between Diabetes and Pancreatic Cancer.
Evidence to suggest that Pancreatic Cancer leads to Diabetes:
- Studies reveal that glucose intolerance, up to 71% in the body, remains unknown to a patient before he is diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer.
- It suggests that diabetes may be is a consequence of pancreatic cancer or an early sign of it.
- When the tumor is removed,there is a marked improvement in the diabetes suggesting that pancreatic tumors and diabetes are be related.
- An Italian study revealed rise in insulin level because of the Pancreatic Cancer Cells.
- It is because pancreatic cancer cells disrupt the functioning of different types of islet cells.The islet cells are the cells which produce the hormone insulin as par the presence of glucose in the blood.
- The Pancreatic Cancer also impairs the insulin signaling process found in muscles leading to diabetes.
Evidence to suggest that diabetes leads to Pancreatic Cancer:
- 80 to 90% cases of diabetes are type 2 diabetes typically associated to older people.
- Studies reveal that the pancreatic cancer cells have insulin receptors in them stimulating their growth.
- We know that Type 2 diabetes patients suffer with excess production of insulin in their body for years.
- In this way,insulin does play a role in the association between long-standing diabetes and Pancreatic cancer.
- That is why,the risk of developing Pancreatic cancer in a diabetic patient persistently increases over time.
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