Radiation therapy may increase diabetes risk in childhood cancer survivors

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 05:56 in Health & Medicine

Childhood cancer survivors treated with total body or abdominal radiation may have an increased risk of diabetes, according to a report in the 10/24 August issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. This correlation does not appear to be related to patients' body mass index or physical inactivity...

Read the whole article on

More from

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net