Blisstree » fasting http://www.blisstree.com Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:00:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Fasting Before Chemotherapy, Beneficial to Cancer Patients http://www.blisstree.com/articles/fasting-before-chemotherapy-beneficial-to-cancer-patients-57/ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/fasting-before-chemotherapy-beneficial-to-cancer-patients-57/#comments Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:54:30 +0000 Gloria Gamat http://www.cancercommentary.com/2008/04/05/fasting-before-chemotherapy-beneficial-to-cancer-patients/ Post from: Blisstree

Fasting Before Chemotherapy, Beneficial to Cancer Patients

]]> 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.

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Fasting Before Chemotherapy, Beneficial to Cancer Patients

]]> http://www.blisstree.com/articles/fasting-before-chemotherapy-beneficial-to-cancer-patients-57/feed/ 0 2008 April Fools’ Day: Cancer Commentary Links http://www.blisstree.com/articles/2008-april-fools-day-cancer-commentary-links-57/ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/2008-april-fools-day-cancer-commentary-links-57/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:33:42 +0000 Gloria Gamat http://www.cancercommentary.com/2008/04/01/2008-april-fools-day-cancer-commentary-links/ Post from: Blisstree

2008 April Fools’ Day: Cancer Commentary Links

]]> 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. :-P

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2008 April Fools’ Day: Cancer Commentary Links

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