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Is Chemotherapy Advisable For A Cancer Patient While Having Elevated Sugar Levels?
My husband has stage 4 colon cancerDukes D it has spread to both lungs and bones now he has bad diabetes in which blood sugar will not go down and he is not circumcised and his penised is red swollen and skin is peeling should chemo be stopped due to the bad diabetes
Tue, 29 Mar 2016
Hello from my opinion I am suggesting you should not stop the chemotherapy pills in order to prevent relapse the chemotherapy medication is independent of the diabetes so let him start insulin metformin tablet
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