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Help us develop future approaches to managing diabetes in people with cancer
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1 in 5 individuals with cancer also have diabetes. Cancer treatment can lead to high glucose levels in those with diabetes. Patients who do not have diabetes can also be affected. Some evidence suggests that patients with both diabetes and cancer might have a poorer experience following cancer treatment. However, it is not known if this is because diabetes changes the way cancer behaves or the way it responds to treatment. Therefore, we do not know at present how best to monitor and treat peoples’ glucose levels during and after cancer treatment.
Thanks for your contributions, this is what we have done so far:
Started a quality improvement project to improve how clinicians communicate the risk of high blood sugars with people affected by cancer during their cancer treatment.
Community engagement with people from Black African, African Caribbean and South Asian ethnicity to improve their involvement and ensure that their views are also considered.
Now we are at a new stage of the project which aims to develop research questions that are important to you.
Help us understand the impact of diabetes and high blood sugar levels on cancer
Currently we do not know the best way to deliver diabetes care to support patients with diabetes or at risk of diabetes during their cancer treatment. With your support we can establish what research is needed and improve our approach to diabetes care. We plan to use health data to explore how having diabetes impacts on survival after cancer treatment. If people with diabetes live less long than those without diabetes we will then see if this is due to cancer or other problems like heart disease, and whether treatment of the cancer differs from those without diabetes. We will also see if diabetes treatment changes after having been diagnosed with cancer. These results will help us to plan ways of improving care for people living with both diabetes and cancer.
How you can support this work
If you have diabetes or have experienced high glucose levels during your cancer treatment you can:
Join a discussion on your experience and thoughts on the effect of diabetes or high blood sugar on your cancer care, to get involved please email [email protected]
If you are over 18 and have received cancer treatment or are about to start, please fill out the survey below. You do not need to have diabetes or have had high glucose levels during cancer treatment to fill in this survey.
1 in 5 individuals with cancer also have diabetes. Cancer treatment can lead to high glucose levels in those with diabetes. Patients who do not have diabetes can also be affected. Some evidence suggests that patients with both diabetes and cancer might have a poorer experience following cancer treatment. However, it is not known if this is because diabetes changes the way cancer behaves or the way it responds to treatment. Therefore, we do not know at present how best to monitor and treat peoples’ glucose levels during and after cancer treatment.
Thanks for your contributions, this is what we have done so far:
Started a quality improvement project to improve how clinicians communicate the risk of high blood sugars with people affected by cancer during their cancer treatment.
Community engagement with people from Black African, African Caribbean and South Asian ethnicity to improve their involvement and ensure that their views are also considered.
Now we are at a new stage of the project which aims to develop research questions that are important to you.
Help us understand the impact of diabetes and high blood sugar levels on cancer
Currently we do not know the best way to deliver diabetes care to support patients with diabetes or at risk of diabetes during their cancer treatment. With your support we can establish what research is needed and improve our approach to diabetes care. We plan to use health data to explore how having diabetes impacts on survival after cancer treatment. If people with diabetes live less long than those without diabetes we will then see if this is due to cancer or other problems like heart disease, and whether treatment of the cancer differs from those without diabetes. We will also see if diabetes treatment changes after having been diagnosed with cancer. These results will help us to plan ways of improving care for people living with both diabetes and cancer.
How you can support this work
If you have diabetes or have experienced high glucose levels during your cancer treatment you can:
Join a discussion on your experience and thoughts on the effect of diabetes or high blood sugar on your cancer care, to get involved please email [email protected]
If you are over 18 and have received cancer treatment or are about to start, please fill out the survey below. You do not need to have diabetes or have had high glucose levels during cancer treatment to fill in this survey.
