Important Facts For Prelims
Diet Management and Cancer Treatment
- 01 Aug 2019
- 1 min read
The study, published in the journal Nature, found that diet management could help in the treatment of cancer.
- It has been found that restricting intake of an amino acid (methionine) found in red meat and eggs significantly enhanced cancer treatment in mice, slowing tumour growth.
- There is a strong correlation between the food we eat, how it changes metabolism and how those changes in cellular metabolism might have an effect on tumour growth.
- Low dose of chemotherapy, (which on its own had no effect on colorectal cancer) combined with amino acid (methionine) restriction can prevent the growth of tumour cells.
- Colorectal cancer is cancer of the colon or rectum, located at the digestive tract's lower end.
- Similarly, combining methionine restriction with radiation therapy in the case of the soft tissue sarcoma reduced tumour growth.
