A ketogenic diet may have health benefits for the treatment or prevention of cancer. But research is mixed, and it can have downsides for people receiving ongoing cancer treatment. Cancer is most ...

A ketogenic diet is a very high-fat diet that forces your body to burn fat, not carbs, for most of its fuel. Researchers are trying to learn if it may also help starve cancer cells.

Scientists at UC San Francisco have discovered a way to get rid of pancreatic cancer in mice by putting them on a high fat, or ketogenic, diet and giving them cancer therapy. The cancer therapy blocks ...

Mice on a ketogenic diet have shown remarkable responses to a class of cancer drug, which has previously experienced largely underwhelming results in human clinical trials. The study published ...

The ketogenic diet has proven to be useful in mast cell tumors, but many other types of cancer need to be investigated. In 2024, researchers published an article in Nature about using the ...

Researchers at MD Anderson are conducting both human and animal studies of the effects of diet, including the ketogenic diet, on cancer. Dec. 18, 2019, 9:26 AM EST / Source : TODAY Contributor ...

A ketogenic diet can interact with certain cancer therapies to block the development of pancreatic cancer in mice, scientists at the University of California San Francisco have found.

A ketogenic diet consisting of high-fat, low-carb foods may boost treatment outcomes for people suffering from pancreatic cancer, according to a mice study. Scientists at the University of ...

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A ketogenic diet can interact with certain cancer therapies to block the development of pancreatic cancer in mice, scientists at the University of California San Francisco have found.

The cancer therapy blocks fat metabolism, which is the cancer's only source of fuel for as long as the mice remain on the ketogenic diet, and the tumors stop growing.