Saturday, April 26, 2008

Calorie restricted diet prevents pancreatic inflammation and cancer

I've had a few posts up in the past looking at some ideas on treating caner with a ketogenic diet.

Here is a related story :

Calorie restricted diet prevents pancreatic inflammation and cancer


Prevention of weight gain with a restricted calorie diet sharply reduced the development of pancreatic lesions that lead to cancer in preclinical research reported today by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting.

While calorie restriction has been shown to have an anti-cancer effect in multiple species and for a variety of tumor types, its impact had not been well-studied in a model of pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death and remains mostly intractable to existing treatments.

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