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<blockquote data-quote="catapillar" data-source="post: 1463345" data-attributes="member: 32394"><p>There isn't a link between type 1 diabetes and pancreatic cancer. Type 1 diabetes is caused by your immune system getting a little bored/confused/over enthusiastic and killing off the insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas.</p><p></p><p>Pancreatic cancer can cause islet of langerhans (where the beta cells live) to be destroyed, but it's pretty unusual for pancreatic cancer to destroy enough of them to significantly impact on insulin production. Type 3c diabetes is when you stop being able to produce insulin due to pancreatitis or pancreatic cancer - but that's usually caused by actually having the pancreas wholly or partly removed in order to treat the cancer.</p><p></p><p>There is a <strong>hypothetical</strong> link between type 2 diabetes and pancreatic cancer, but that's basically because they don't know what causes type 2 it's possible that in some cases in may be caused by something sinister in the pancreas, equally it's possible that the hyperinsulimia required by an insulin resistant type 2 diabetic's pancreas does something to cause pancreatic cancer, in rare cases. They just don't know. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC149418/#!po=45.2381" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC149418/#!po=45.2381</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catapillar, post: 1463345, member: 32394"] There isn't a link between type 1 diabetes and pancreatic cancer. Type 1 diabetes is caused by your immune system getting a little bored/confused/over enthusiastic and killing off the insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas. Pancreatic cancer can cause islet of langerhans (where the beta cells live) to be destroyed, but it's pretty unusual for pancreatic cancer to destroy enough of them to significantly impact on insulin production. Type 3c diabetes is when you stop being able to produce insulin due to pancreatitis or pancreatic cancer - but that's usually caused by actually having the pancreas wholly or partly removed in order to treat the cancer. There is a [B]hypothetical[/B] link between type 2 diabetes and pancreatic cancer, but that's basically because they don't know what causes type 2 it's possible that in some cases in may be caused by something sinister in the pancreas, equally it's possible that the hyperinsulimia required by an insulin resistant type 2 diabetic's pancreas does something to cause pancreatic cancer, in rare cases. They just don't know. [URL]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC149418/#!po=45.2381[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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