Can diet help cancer treatment? Study in mice offers clues

On the subject of diet and cancer, diet may be one reason why Japanese smokers have a lower incidence of lung cancer than American ones. In the USA, smoking increases the risk 40 times, in Japan it is 6 times. This is a well known paradox but is not yet understood.

I heard similar things years ago from Valter Longo, famous for his fasting-mimicking diet. He has a nice explanation of why dieting helps cancer treatment.

There is no evidence to suggest any kind of diet helps treat cancer. In fact, cancer patients should be eating what they want, when they want. The treatment makes them feel bad enough as it is, affecting appetite and eating, so asking them to follow a fad diet is cruel and counter productive.

There is no evidence to suggest any kind of diet helps treat cancer.

Sure, but on the other hand, when you're treating cancer, you're essentially at war with a poison in your body. In such a case, eating healthy would seem to be a better idea than eating a bunch of junk which isn't good for a healthy person, much less someone fighting cancer.

That's my theory at least. Take it for what you will, it's not something I've fact-checked. But I suspect neither was the post I'm replying to.

There is no evidence to suggest any kind of diet helps treat cancer.

Did you read the article. There is evidence, it was recently published in the journal Nature. And if you bother looking into Valter Longo, you can learn about additional evidence that supports this.

I did read the article, and there is no evidence. Cancer is not a poison, and if you can eat anything while undergoing cancer treatment, it's a bonus. Following a faddy diet makes zero difference to your cancer.

The study indicates what is already known that diet and your biome have a complex interrelated effect on you, any disease and your individual reaction to specific treatments. This is an area we are only just starting to get to grips with and it will doubtless be quite a while before we get anything like a comprehensive handle on it. What the study does indicate is that there may be beneficial effects in respect of certain treatments for certain cancers. So no it is not definitively proven but indicative.

Eating a crap diet of junk food will do you no good, be you healthy or not.

Luddite, patently the study is indicating to the contrary of your statement above.