Clinical Challenges in Caring for Patients With Diabetes and Cancer
- Helen M. Psarakis, RN, APRN
Abstract
In Brief
Diabetes and cancer are two diagnoses that individually overwhelm both patients and clinicians. Approximately 8–18% of people with cancer have diabetes. Together, these two diseases can pose formidable challenges to clinicians caring for this difficult patient population. Unfortunately, our knowledge of this topic is limited by insufficient evidence to determine how best to manage diabetes while simultaneously treating cancer. This article seeks to review some of the most common problems encountered by clinicians caring for these patients.
Footnotes
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Helen M. Psarakis, RN, APRN, is a diabetes clinical nurse specialist at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Conn.
- American Diabetes Association
