According to a study published in Science Translational Medicine, chemotherapy when combined with fasting slowed or limited the growth of tumors in all the cancers that the researchers tested in mouse models.
In fact, in more than half of the cancers tested, fasting alone was as effective as chemotherapy.
Fasting appears to protect mice against the harms of chemotherapy drugs, while sensitizing cancer cell types to those same chemotherapy drugs.
Specifically, chemo drugs used against cancers including melanoma, breast cancer and glioma proved more effective when cycles of starvation were applied.
The reader should keep in mind that these studies are the result of pre-clinical trials in mice, and that no such trial has been carried out in humans. Nonetheless, the authors of the research feel that oncologists should at least consider the option with patients who are healthy enough.
Source: Science Translational Medicine
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