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Various cancer patients I know have switched to a ketogenic diet for quite a few years already.
So I did a bit of digging to see if it helps, or more importantly: if it doesn’t make it worse.
My start was the first hits on [Wayback/Archive.is] ketogenic cancer – Google Scholar:
- [Wayback/Archive.is] Ketogenic diet in cancer therapy – PMC on
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - [Wayback] Ketogenic diet in the treatment of cancer – Where do we stand? – ScienceDirect
- [Wayback] Ketogenic diets as an adjuvant cancer therapy: History and potential mechanism – ScienceDirect
- [Wayback] The calorically restricted ketogenic diet, an effective alternative therapy for malignant brain cancer | Nutrition & Metabolism | Full Text
- [Wayback] Effects of a ketogenic diet on the quality of life in 16 patients with advanced cancer: A pilot trial | Nutrition & Metabolism | Full Text
- [Wayback] Systematic review: isocaloric ketogenic dietary regimes for cancer patients | SpringerLink
Some more specific links are at [Wayback] ketogenic colorectal cancer – Google Scholar.
For now, I’m with these conclusions on the Wikipedia articles on Ketosis and Ketogenic diet:
- Cancer: Preclinical studies have indicated ketosis may have anti-tumor effects, although clinical trials have been limited by small sample sizes and have not shown conclusive benefit.[21]
- Because some cancer cells are inefficient in processing ketone bodies for energy, the ketogenic diet has also been suggested as a treatment for cancer.[61][62] A 2018 review looked at the evidence from preclinical and clinical studies of ketogenic diets in cancer therapy. The clinical studies in humans are typically very small, with some providing weak evidence for an anti-tumour effect, particularly for glioblastoma, but in other cancers and studies, no anti-tumour effect was seen. Taken together, results from preclinical studies, albeit sometimes contradictory, tend to support an anti-tumor effect rather than a pro-tumor effect of the KD for most solid cancers.[63]
–jeroen
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