Herein, we developed a MedDiet intervention for patients undergoing chemotherapy and identified barriers and facilitators to adherence. METHODS. This was a qualitative analysis of the intervention arm of a rand
CANCER patientsA clinical trial published in Nature Communications examined the effect of fasting-mimicking diet (FMD) during chemotherapy in breast cancer patients. The overall negative study results highlight the need for ameliorating future trial design and investigating alternative FMD-based therapeutic...
Cancer affects a patient’s appetite, leading to reduced food intake(1). In some cases, tumors tend to induce anorexia in cancer patients(2). Cancer treatments, like surgical procedures, chemotherapy, and interventional radiology procedures, also cause side effects that may affect a patient’s fo...
Chemoprevention—the use of medication to prevent cancer—can be augmented by the consumption of produce enriched with natural metabolites. However, chemopreventive metabolites are typically inactive and have low bioavailability and poor host absorption.
Foods to eat and avoid for inflammatory breast cancer patients & survivorsAll breast cancer patients should take into account their ER/PR subtype in designing their diets:Hormone receptor positive (ER+/PR+) breast cancerFoods to eat and avoid for ER+/PR+ patients and survivors...
“For patients with gastrointestinal cancers or head and neck cancers who need to maintain weight during treatment, eating a high-calorie diet is fine,” he said. “But for patients with breast cancer or prostate cancer—many of whom are already overweight—giving recommendations to eat whateve...
I have also maintained better health than is normal for Myeloma patients — despite takingno chemotherapy medicationfor nearly the entire 11 years since I started the ketogenic diet! Mycholesterolis good enough for me! Dividing triglycerides by HDL, the ratio should be under 2, and my latest ra...
There has long been debate over a link between diet and cancer. From the initial observations that esophageal cancers were more common in people with a high consumption of smoked fish and the link between smoking and lung cancer, it has been obvious to s
To be included in the study, the women must be >18 years of age; have been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer (Stage 0-IIIa); have successfully completed surgery, radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy more than 6 weeks prior to allow for wound healing and/or shoulder recovery, but not mo...
These results support further clinical studies of a fasting-mimicking diet as an adjuvant to oestrogen therapy in hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer. Similar content being viewed by others Fasting mimicking diet as an adjunct to neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer in the multicentre ...