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How does getting pancreas transplants could cure diabetes?
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Diabetes/pancreas: All types of diabetes are caused by not being able to make enough Insulin to keep your blood sugar at a normal level. By getting a pancreas transplant the patients new pancreas will hopefully make enough Insulin to keep their blood sugars normal.
Answered 9/29/2016
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