Recognized or not, a likely effect of chemotherapy
 

Although this study was done on men only, it is interesting in that as a group, those people who choose to be treated with chemotherapy end up with far lower levels of testosterone than those who do not, and the effect on the metabolism logically would be quite similar.

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi...tract/30/2/234

A.A.

P.S. Where, oh where, have all the endocrinologists gone?!