Did you know that if the tumor is squamous deprive sweet, it stops growing?
More recently, the complex of research, scientists have found the following: in laboratory mice with squamous cancer of the esophagus and lung, sitting on a ketogenic diet, tumor growth was two times slower than that of their relatives, eating usually. And those animals, which in addition to diet and were given another anti-cancer medicine, cancer does not develop at all!
The experiments were inconclusive: a special meal in conjunction with prescribed medications successfully It is struggling with squamous cell carcinoma, and can therefore be recommended in the treatment of a variety of cancers diseases.
squamous cell carcinoma
Squamous malignancies - a certain species of cancer that start in the epithelium lining the surface as well as the body cavity. They are most common of all lung cancers are the second - immediately after adenocarcinoma.
Squamous cell carcinoma is almost immune to traditional targeted therapy, because it is unable to prevent the growth of rapidly dividing cells and selectively affects the well-defined "target" in the biochemical processes occurring within cancer cells. Therefore, the most effective means of struggle against squamous cell carcinoma has been and remains the radiation as well as chemotherapy.
No sweet!
A group of scientists-oncologists from the US and South Korea launched a series of studies in search of weaknesses specific to squamous cell carcinoma. It was found that this type of tumor, in order to meet the needs for energy and security, require glucose. In addition, unlike other types of cancer that expresses GLUT1 gene involved in transport of glucose itself. So for him to develop, it needs more sugar.
The authors experiments have focused attention and efforts on this weakness of the disease. They conducted experiments with mice, they live cells of human squamous cell cancer of the esophagus and lung. Forty days, the mice were kept on a ketogenic diet of fats and proteins, but is almost devoid of carbohydrate. It was then that it became clear that the test animals receiving a diet diet, tumor growth was halved.
Scientists believe: malignant tumors to grow and develop not only interferes with the deficit of sugar, but also a drop in insulin levels in the bloodstream. After insulin "spurs" activity signaling pathway PI3K / AKT, reducing apoptosis. It also promotes the growth of cells, their proliferation. Here and in mice a special ketogenic diet reduced proliferation and, on the contrary, accelerated apoptosis.
The results of these studies demonstrate that with squamous cell carcinoma is quite possible to deal effectively depriving him of glucose. You can also use drugs to treat diabetes - experiments on animals show no harm to their body from kanagliflozina it noted.
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