Detecting Cancer Early In Diabetic Women

According to the Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, women diagnosed with cancer of their reproductive organs should be screened for Type 2 diabetes. It is also beneficial for women with Type 2 diabetes to be screened for cancer of their reproductive systems.

Over a period of eleven years, researchers at the University of Science in Malaysia studied women who had been given a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis. They found...

• 860 cases of breast, uterine, cervical, or ovarian cancer.
• an average of 26.5 percent cancer patients had Type 2 diabetes.
• uterine cancer patients had the highest proportion of diabetes at 42.1 percent.

Female reproductive tract cancer has been on the rise as more women develop Type 2 diabetes.

From the above results, it was concluded Diabetic Clinics should screen their female patients for reproductive system cancers and Gynecology Clinics should screen their patients for Type 2 diabetes.

In October 2015, the journal Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice published an article linking the use of morphine in breast cancer patients to Type 2 diabetes. Researchers at China Medical University in Taichung and National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan, compared over 31,000 women with breast cancer...

• women using morphine were 24 percent more likely to develop diabetes than non-morphine users. The higher the morphine dose, the more likely they were to be diagnosed with diabetes.
• the risk of diabetes also increased with the use of the breast cancer drugs tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors, and with antipsychotic medications.

The best screening device for breast cancer is the mammogram, an x-ray of the breast. It can detect the disease up to two years before women and their doctors can feel a lump. Recommendations for when to begin mammograms and how often to have them differ. Some doctors recommend starting mammograms at age 40 and repeating each year.

Screening for cervical cancer involves removing some cells from the cervix and viewing them under a microscope with a Papanicolaou stain: a Pap smear. The American Cancer Society recommends Pap smears begin at age 21 and every three years after that until age 65, except in women at high risk.

There is no screening test for ovarian cancer. CA-125 is used to follow the condition's progress. Sometimes tumors can be felt with a pelvic exam, although the swellings are usually difficult to find. Transvaginal ultrasound is used to find suspected ovarian cancers.

Endometrial or uterine cancer is commonly diagnosed because women have bleeding between menstrual periods or post menopause. Women having abnormal bleeding should see their doctor promptly because removal of the uterus is often curative.

Although managing your disease can be very challenging, Type 2 diabetes is not a condition you must just live with. You can make simple changes to your daily routine and lower both your weight and your blood sugar levels. Hang in there, the longer you do it, the easier it gets.

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