Immunotherapy is fighting cancer but leaves patients with Diabetes

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About one percent of cancer patients treated with immunotherapy develop 'adolescent' diabetes when they are young. Doctors don't know why and the Parker Institute plans to find out.

Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment and survival rates, but it comes with a cost and, for some patients, that is a lifetime of diabetes and insulin dependence.So far, only about one percent of immunotherapy patients seem to develop diabetes, but as the relatively new treatment becomes more common, drug-related diabetes might too.

 

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