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Study finds high blood glucose levels sensitizes pancreatic cancer cells to chemotherapy
Medical Xpress / University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center / Nature Communications ^
| July 26, 2023
| Ali Vaziri-Gohar et al
Posted on 08/01/2023 9:14:09 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
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High blood glucose did not help pancreatic cancer sufferers who did not receive chemotherapy.
This is a counterintuitive finding to arrive at. It’s almost like saying smoking can help cure lung cancer, under chemo.
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posted on
08/01/2023 9:14:55 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
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To: ConservativeMind
I have a classmate at MD Anderson for pancreatic cancer. The first round of chemo really beat him up. Round 2 comes this Thursday. Hoping for the best, but also knowing that it has a poor prognosis in most cases.
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posted on
08/01/2023 10:55:57 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: ConservativeMind
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posted on
08/02/2023 2:59:40 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(Sun Tzu: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”)
To: ConservativeMind
Not sure - when the do a PET scan to look for tumors, they inject some radioactive sugar because the sugar “hunts out and infuses” the cancerous areas - perhaps higher glucose levels help the chemo infuse the cancer cells better.
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posted on
08/02/2023 4:56:24 AM PDT
by
trebb
(So many fools - so little time...)
To: Myrddin
The chemo is horrible. It compounds—the first round is the easiest.
When my wife was going through it, the answer was: Calories. The key was to get as many calories as possible into her. They need the energy to make it through the rough days.
It’s a long haul, but people DO make it through. And…the treatments change and improve all the time.
Good luck to your friend.
To: Vermont Lt
Good luck to your friend.Thanks. We've been friends since junior high days sitting in the trumpet section of the band. Today, he is a very good clinical psychologist. It's awful to see all of that great effort derailed with pancreatic cancer. We both agreed that he needs to set sights on the 50th high school class reunion next year. Have a stretch goal to maintain hope.
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08/02/2023 7:49:12 AM PDT
by
Myrddin
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