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Thread: News, Doctors make arm do job of pancreas.

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08-19-2008, 08:10 PM

BlueSky

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I am a: Type 1

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... part of an ongoing inquiry into how best to prevent diabetes in a person whose pancreas has been removed because of pancreatitis, trauma, or benign or early-stage malignant tumors. ...

T1s don't fall into that category, so they wouldn't benefit from this. The immune system destroys the beta cells, no matter where they are.

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