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Any Updates on Ketogenic and other diets?
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Any Updates on Ketogenic and other diets?

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    • January 22, 2018 at 2:15 pm
    Oldwife
    Participant

      I've been reading through past threads on ketogenic trials and on diets in general, and am interested in updates in the last few years. (most of the threads are 2012 or earlier.)

      A recent conversation with DH's radiation oncologist on the subject of diet was interesting; he said he himself would do a low sugar diet. He said that the difficulties of accurately monitoring the real sugar and other nutrient intakes of patients in a well designed trial were so great that a definitive trial would never be done.( He had worked on trial design and rigor for years.)

      Thanks!

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        • January 22, 2018 at 2:49 pm
        Janner
        Participant

          So is the oncologist on a low sugar diet to prevent cancer?  Or is he saying that to prevent a recurrence?  Others have done both to little effect.  And his statement that it is too difficult to conduct a trial seems to negate your question altogether.

            • January 22, 2018 at 3:58 pm
            Anonymous
            Inactive
              I’m very interested in this topic as through my research it seems if you have the BRAF Mutation the cells also feed on fat.
              https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170112141359.htm
              • January 22, 2018 at 9:34 pm
              Oldwife
              Participant

                The Science Daily article is the first good piece of independant evidence that I've seen. Thank you so much! Most helpful!

                • January 22, 2018 at 9:33 pm
                Oldwife
                Participant

                  Thanks for the clarifying questions.  We make it a practice to ask doctors what they would do in the event that they had similarmedical situations. The question was 'what would you do if you had cancer?' and his reply was that he would cut down on sugar intake. It has been known for a hundred years or more that cancer cells have an affinity for sugar. (My words.)

                  The trial statement came up in the context that medical trials require a standard of rigorous structure and accounting for variables that would be very difficult to reach with a large number of participants. He didn't think there would be a large study of people which would definitively answer all questions about sugar intake in cancer patients, in large part because the funding would be prohibitive. 

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