Canadian Drugstore Suggests Obesity & Type 2 Diabetes Can Lead to Colon Cancer

Jan 3
09:12

2012

Remcel Mae P. Canete

Remcel Mae P. Canete

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Individuals diagnosed with colon cancer have inferior prognosis if they're obese or have type 2 diabetes. Canadian drugs that they take may be more complicated than non-obese and non-diabetic patients.

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Individuals diagnosed with colon cancer have inferior prognosis if they're obese or have type 2 diabetes.  Canadian drugs that they take may be more complicated than non-obese and non-diabetic patients. 

"The message here is to avoid obesity and type 2 diabetes because they have negative health outcomes. We don't know for sure that losing weight or increasing physical activity will help,Canadian Drugstore Suggests Obesity & Type 2 Diabetes Can Lead to Colon Cancer Articles but we know they're good for trying to avoid other diseases, like cardiovascular disease, that can come up down the road," said Dr. Jeffrey Meyerhardt, author of an accompanying editorial in the same journal, and an associate professor of medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston. 

Meyerhardt explained that "the researchers tried to adjust the data for important factors, such as physical activity, red meat intake a known risk factor for colorectal cancer, family history and blood pressure levels. Even after adjusting the data, obesity increased the risk of dying." 

"In and of itself, obesity does seem to have some effect," Meyerhardt said.  More often than not obesity is usually linked with constipation due to their poor metabolism – to buy Resolor is recommended. 

"Insulin use in type 2 diabetes usually indicates longer-standing diabetes, which is usually associated with worse outcomes," Meyerhardt noted. 

"Obesity, elevated body-mass index and diabetes are associated with worse disease states across the board," said Dr. David Bernstein, chief of gastroenterology at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y. "But, we don't know if you lose weight if that risk will go down. I don't counsel patients who've been diagnosed with colorectal cancer to lose weight, because weight loss tends to be a worry in people undergoing cancer treatment anyway. I do counsel my patients that haven't been diagnosed with cancer to lose weight. The medical community needs to spend more time counseling prevention." 

Meyerhardt added that "it's also not clear from these studies whether or not obese people or those with type 2 diabetes would benefit from changes in the treatment they receive for colorectal cancer."  As to their costs, they can source from various Canada pharmacies online for great deals.