Posted on 10/19/2017 2:13:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The findings, reported in the journal Nature Communications, help unravel what has been a scientific mystery to medical researchers – precisely how sugar makes tumors grow faster. The new understanding could help lead to new ways to combat cancer, through diet and other modifications of sugar intake.
The research team – led by Johan Thevelein, Wim Versées and Veerle Janssens – have been studying sugar’s link to cancer for nearly a decade. They, and other scientists, have determined tumor cells grow by rapidly breaking down glucose (a form of sugar) – a phenomenon known as the “Warburg effect.”
But the new research determined precisely how. The Belgian team found that yeast with high levels of glucose overstimulate proteins often found mutated inside human tumors, making cells grow faster.
"[The study] is able to explain the correlation between the strength of the Warburg effect and tumor aggressiveness," Thevelein, from KU Leuven in Belgium, said in a release.
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It did not say CAUSES.... sheesh...
No, again FEEDS not causes.
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I was at my oncologist a couple weeks ago and they have one of those electronic wall signs that shows ads or I should say public service tips for cancer. They had a big ad that said nothing much except that cancer is not affected by sugar and you can eat sugar a low sugar diet won’t help you with cancer. To which I thought it’s been 85 years since Warburg proved the absolute opposite. what lobbyists paid for this sign?
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