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.

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.