An Old Idea Revived: Starve Cancer to Death

The New York Times ^ | May 12, 2016 | Sam Apple

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

In the early 20th century, the German biochemist Otto Warburg believed that tumors could be treated by disrupting their source of energy. His idea was dismissed for decades — until now... Theodor Boveri discovered that if he fertilized sea-urchin eggs with two sperm rather than one, some of the cells would end up with the wrong number of chromosomes and fail to develop properly....Boveri was aware that cancer cells, had abnormal chromosomes; whatever caused cancer, had something to do with chromosomes.

... Otto Warburg's... research, was hailed as a major breakthrough in our understanding of cancer..... Warburg was focused on energy, specifically on how the eggs fueled their growth. Warburg knew that sea-urchin eggs increased their oxygen consumption significantly as they grew, so he expected to see a similar need for extra oxygen in the rat tumor. Instead, the cancer cells fueled their growth by swallowing up enormous amounts of glucose (blood sugar) and breaking it down without oxygen.

The result made no sense. Oxygen-fueled reactions are a much more efficient way of turning food into energy, ... Warburg tested additional tumors from humans and he saw the same effect. The cancer cells were ravenous for glucose..... Warburg’s discovery -the Warburg effect, is estimated to occur in up to 80 percent of cancers. It is so fundamental that a positron emission tomography (PET) scan, which has emerged as an important tool in the staging and diagnosis of cancer, works simply by revealing the places in the body where cells are consuming extra glucose. In many cases, the more glucose a tumor consumes, the worse a patient’s prognosis. “I think there’s no doubt that insulin is pro-cancer,” Watson says, with respect to the link between obesity, diabetes and cancer. “It’s as good a hypothesis as we have now.”

[wardaddy]

If you go on a juicing only diet it will slow down Uncle Charlie absolutely

But cure it no

There is no cure yet

You just stop it or excise it for now...

If it’s not stopped or removed it’s either coming or going

It’s the velocity as much as anything

My 89 year old mentally retarded aunt who we care for has a very slow growing mass in breasts

Radical on left 10 years ago...some spots left...no chemo or rad....it’s quite slow growing....less than 5 percent a year...at her age no heroics

[rawcatslyentist]

Interesting that insulin appears to be pro-cancerous

Not really, insulin does not lower blood sugar levels, it speeds up the cellular use of sugar to burn it off.

[RC one]

go ahead and inject yourself with 50 units of novolog and tell me how it didn’t lower your blood sugar.

[kvanbrunt2]

i think avastin is used to decrease the blood vessels to the tumor. and sounds like a similar effect of starving the tumor. OF course douchbag Emmanual (one of the obamacare fathers) wants to stop avastin as a treatment because it hasn’t been proven to work. except my girlfriend is alive today because of these trials she received at Penn.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

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