Fasting Before Chemotherapy, Beneficial to Cancer Patients
April 5, 2008 by Gloria Gamat
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
According to scientists at the University of Southern California (USC), in collaboration with Italian researchers, fasting (for 48 hours) before receiving chemotherapy could help limit the treatment’s toxic effects to cancer cells—and spare healthy ones.
Starving healthy cells helps to differentiate them from tumor cells, a trick that could make cancer treatments more effective.
The new finding may pave the way for higher and more frequent chemo doses that better shrink tumors without harming normal cells.
Any thoughts on the matter? I’d like to hear them.
Find more details from Scientific American.
2008 April Fools’ Day: Cancer Commentary Links
April 1, 2008 by Gloria Gamat
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
It’s April Fools’ day. However… in the cancer front, there’s no fool or fooling. Definitely, these aren’t for fools:
Brain cancer fears over heavy mobile phone use
Study: One Sausage Per Day Increases Bowel Cancer Risk by a Fifth
Fasting could help fight cancer
Hope over Tasmanian Devil cancer
Hey…easy on the practical jokes, okay? And don’t be so gullible yourself! He he he.




