Less advanced stages of colon cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: an unexpected finding?
Possibly because of earlier detection, patients with T2DM may be at lower risk for advanced stages of colon cancer at diagnosis. Further studies are warranted to confirm our results and to investigate the impact of closer medical surveillance in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Transnasal butorphanol given in a dose of 25 microg/kg after induction of anesthesia provided adequate postoperative pain relief in children undergoing BMT.