[Characteristics of treatment of patients with breast cancer and diabetes mellitus]. / Osobennosti lecheniia bol'nykh rakom molochnoi zhelezy i sakharnym diabetom.

The clinical course and results of radical mastectomy in 17 patients with associated diabetes mellitus (2,9% of all the patients operated during 5 years) are analyzed. The authors describe certain peculiarities of this group of patients: a mild course of diabetes mellitus, nodular type of growth and high degree of differentiation of the tumor. Correction of diabetes mellitus before and after operation is found to prevent complications in the postoperative period.