Concentrated cancer in a tube?
The major story that’s doing the diabetes news circuit at the minute is the cheerful report that suggests that everyone’s favourite long-acting insulin lantus can cause cancer. Thrill seekers can check out Google news if you want the very latest.
Being an avid lantus user (40 units a day at 7.30pm fact fans!) I had a look into these claims – after all I don’t have an overwhelming urge to be sent to an early grave by cancer. I’d much rather diabetes complications did that instead.
So I had a look through the ;
Madness I tell ya.
And I agree, as time moves forward (as it should and always has) another report will pop up that points to “something” causing cancer.
Woo. Hoo.
Thanks for your in-depth research. I write that, in-depth, seriously because yours IS compared to the supposed “mainstream” ones.
Madness.
@CALpumper Thanks CAL – but I know it’s all academic to you pump users, you don’t give a damn about lantus 🙂
The other thing about health scares is that they all relate to cancer, which I’ve just become dulled to now. I want to see scares about things that cause zombiefaction – now *that* would give you something to really worry about as I really wouldn’t want to roam the earth as one of the undead.
Sounds worse than diabetes; would make a good blog though…
@Tim
Oooooh, “zombiefaction” – like, “Shaun of the Dead”? Great movie!
@Mark Mmmmm….spicy brains!
And, yes, Shaun of the Dead was a good film – I was a big fan of TV’s “Spaced” with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost before, so I enjoyed the many Spaced in-jokes in the film…
Carried off by diabetes complications? I’d rather be shot by a PCT sniper because I’m causing them and their neighbouring PCT buddies too much aggro!
I wonder how long before “they” find that having a plastic tube resting against your belly causes some hideous condition…
Lesley
http://input-diabetes.blogspot.com/
@Lesley, I love the idea of a PCT sniper. I must be pretty near the top of my PCT’s hit list so I’ll be careful from now on when walking round corners, just in case that sniper is there!
@Lesley I give it four weeks at most. “Sterile needles and tubing cause cancer, say docs”
“Researchers found that patients on a chemo unit all had one thing in common – sterile needles and plastic tubing were being used to administer drugs. They concluded that sterile needles and plastic tubing could be a causative factor…”
@Lesley Scientists have also discovered that Type 1’s who use insulin suffer from diabetes for longer than those who don’t.
I believe the following cause cancer: boring desk jobs, cheap vodka, and Facebook. I’m sure there’s a study in progress…
Lots of older Northern European women with Type 2 diabetes use Lantus. Many older Northern European women tend to suffer of breast cancer because of founder mutations on their BRCA1&2 genes. If you milk Northern European databases and shake up this data, you are bound to come up with something that might taste of carcinogenic Lantus. PCT sniper, please shoot the milkman/journalist who delivered it as “news”.(That is, if PCT stands for Protector of Cow Tits?)
@Ckoei Ben Goldacre over at http://www.badscience.net/ writes lots of this sort of stuff and his stuff is generally worth a read.
PCT stands for Primary Care Trust – the local health care region / division – but should really stand for Protector of Cow Tits. That would make getting letters from them so much more fun.