Dinner is served, sir: Fighting cancer with the right diet

Andrés Méndez-Lucas; Mariia Yuneva

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2021.11.036

Dinner is served, sir: Fighting cancer with the right diet

Cell. 2021 Dec 22;184(26):6226-6228. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.11.036.

Authors

Andrés Méndez-Lucas¹, Mariia Yuneva²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physiological Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Hospitalet de Llobregat 08901, Barcelona, Spain.
² The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK. Electronic address: mariia.yuneva@crick.ac.uk.

PMID: 34942098
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.11.036

Abstract

Altered metabolism of tumors offers an opportunity to use metabolic interventions as a therapeutic strategy. Lien et al. demonstrate that understanding how specific diets with different carbohydrate and fat composition affect tumor metabolism is essential in order to use this opportunity efficiently.

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MeSH terms

Diet
Dietary Carbohydrates*
Humans
Meals
Neoplasms* / drug therapy

Substances

Dietary Carbohydrates