If, as you say cardguy, the biggest factor in cancer lethality is growth/aggressiveness, then lifestyle changes that slow growth would make sense, both as prevention and treatment.
Ketogenic (i.e. very low carb) diets are showing promise:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/...84,00.html
In that study, all that stuck with it for 3 months had tumors that slowed, stopped growing or shrunk. n='a handful', sure... but the cancer specialists say it's promising. And it just makes sense knowing what we know about cells: Normal ones can use ketones as fuel, cancer cells can't. Somewhat staggering that the cell biology has been known since the 1930s, and only now are we seeing studies on low-carb for cancer...
Just an aside that I read about today: Fasting for two days before chemotherapy could decrease the negative side effects of it by making normal cells more resistant, and also increase the cancer's susceptibility to the chemo:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...oost-chemo
Kind of sad that these free and easy promising treatments are always slow to get studied. Understandable though I suppose in an industry where much of the funding $$ is for developing profitable drugs.
Would be nice if governments invested more in studying simple, wholistic treatments for these things.
Ketogenic (i.e. very low carb) diets are showing promise:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/...84,00.html
In that study, all that stuck with it for 3 months had tumors that slowed, stopped growing or shrunk. n='a handful', sure... but the cancer specialists say it's promising. And it just makes sense knowing what we know about cells: Normal ones can use ketones as fuel, cancer cells can't. Somewhat staggering that the cell biology has been known since the 1930s, and only now are we seeing studies on low-carb for cancer...
Just an aside that I read about today: Fasting for two days before chemotherapy could decrease the negative side effects of it by making normal cells more resistant, and also increase the cancer's susceptibility to the chemo:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...oost-chemo
Kind of sad that these free and easy promising treatments are always slow to get studied. Understandable though I suppose in an industry where much of the funding $$ is for developing profitable drugs.
Would be nice if governments invested more in studying simple, wholistic treatments for these things.