Carbohydrate metabolism and cervical (uterine) carcinoma

Abstract The classical glucose tolerance test was per[ormed on 26 ambulatory, nonhospitalized, biopsy-proved squamous cell cervical carcinoma patients and compared with similar testing of 26 age- and sex-paired individuals without cancer. Three items deserve special mention. First, the [requency of glycosuria in the cancer group is approximately fourfold that observed in the noncancer persons. Second, the frequency of elevated blood glucose levels in the cancer group is approximately twofold that in the noncancer group. Third, the mean blood glucose values at every temporal point are statistically higher in the oncologic group versus those without cancer.