Starving before chemo

Submitted by CancerHusband on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 13:12

This is an interesting article that shows mice that were starved before being administered a single dose of chemo had far greater survival (presumedly from chemo toxicity, not tumor kill):-

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/cancer/dn13564-starving-befor...

Of interest is that there will be a clinical trial starting with 20 patients.

More links:

http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,22614,0.htm

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