How to Manage Diabetes With Cancer?
Diabetes is a frustrating disease to deal with on its own. Cancer on the other hand can be both exhausting and painful. On the other hand, battling both the diseases together is a challenge of a different kind. It can stress up your life even more. With increasing cases of both cancer and diabetes, it is becoming even more important for patients with both these conditions to find ways to manage the diseases and reduce the risk of infection and the severe side effects that they might have to face. Between 8-18% of people living with cancer also have diabetes. Most of the patients generally know that they are diabetic before being diagnosed with cancer, some of them discover diabetes only after being diagnosed with cancer or while treatment. Properly managing diabetes during cancer is critical since it can affect all other organs. Cancer and its treatment may cause metabolic changes that trigger or aggravate symptoms of diabetes. Increased levels of sugar can weaken the immune syst