We use cookies to ensure our site functions properly and to store limited information about your usage. You may give or withdraw consent at any time. To find out more, read our privacy policy and cookie policy.
Manage Cookies
A cookie is information stored on your computer by a website you visit. Cookies often store your settings for a website, such as your preferred language or location. This allows the site to present you with information customized to fit your needs. As per the GDPR law, companies need to get your explicit approval to collect your data. Some of these cookies are ‘strictly necessary’ to provide the basic functions of the website and can not be turned off, while others if present, have the option of being turned off. Learn more about our Privacy and Cookie policies. These can be managed also from our cookie policy page.
Strictly necessary cookies(always on):
Necessary for enabling core functionality. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. This cannot be turned off. e.g. Sign in, Language
Analytics cookies:
Analytical cookies help us to analyse user behaviour, mainly to see if the users are able to find and act on things that they are looking for. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. Tools used: Google Analytics
Help us develop future approaches to managing diabetes in people with cancer
Share Help us develop future approaches to managing diabetes in people with cancer on FacebookShare Help us develop future approaches to managing diabetes in people with cancer on TwitterShare Help us develop future approaches to managing diabetes in people with cancer on LinkedinEmail Help us develop future approaches to managing diabetes in people with cancer link
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.
What do you think about monitoring your blood sugar levels?
To monitor the effect of cancer treatment on blood sugar levels, people can check their blood sugar levels at home using a finger prick test. If the blood sugar levels are found to be consistently high, a doctor or nurse in a GP surgery or cancer day unit would start diabetes treatment to control a person’s blood sugar levels during their cancer treatment. Diabetes medications can be used to manage high blood sugars both in people with diabetes (who may need to start treatment for the first time or take additional treatment) and in some people who did not have diabetes at the time of their cancer diagnosis, but develop high sugar levels during their treatment.
How can you support this work?
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.
If you have diabetes or have experienced high glucose levels during your cancer treatment and would like to get involved in planning this research further please email Dola.Awoyemi@rmh.nhs.uk(External link)
We will update this page with the second part of this work - on the impact of diabetes and high blood sugar levels on cancer - in the coming months. Make sure you are signed up on the platform to receive a notification on this.
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.
What do you think about monitoring your blood sugar levels?
To monitor the effect of cancer treatment on blood sugar levels, people can check their blood sugar levels at home using a finger prick test. If the blood sugar levels are found to be consistently high, a doctor or nurse in a GP surgery or cancer day unit would start diabetes treatment to control a person’s blood sugar levels during their cancer treatment. Diabetes medications can be used to manage high blood sugars both in people with diabetes (who may need to start treatment for the first time or take additional treatment) and in some people who did not have diabetes at the time of their cancer diagnosis, but develop high sugar levels during their treatment.
How can you support this work?
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.
If you have diabetes or have experienced high glucose levels during your cancer treatment and would like to get involved in planning this research further please email Dola.Awoyemi@rmh.nhs.uk(External link)
We will update this page with the second part of this work - on the impact of diabetes and high blood sugar levels on cancer - in the coming months. Make sure you are signed up on the platform to receive a notification on this.
