Someone emailed about somatic vs. metabolic theory.
Bad news from the TCGA:
http://robbwolf.com/2013/09/19/origin-cancer/
Seyfried’s text “Cancer as a Metabolic Disease” (not cheap):
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/biology/facadmin/seyfried.html
A blog by an MD exploring keto diets generally.
http://eatingacademy.com/nutrition/war-cancer
http://eatingacademy.com/nutrition/way-exploit-metabolic-quirk-cancer
Someone else asked about specific advice on prostate cancer.
Seyfried’s page has a link for further info on using R-KD (restricted calorie ketogenic diet) as therapy. I might add that, even though I’ve read his book, I tend to think that R-KD isn’t the whole answer, nor does Seyfried describe it as a “cure”.
On prostate, I advise being very skeptical of PSA results. Our family has already had experience with false positives. Biopsy is the most reliable. Kallikrein testing looks promising and may be coming to market.
This is all more than I know about it, having stumbled into it while exploring diet & health.
I just got around to reading a study published a few years ago about the usefulness of PSA screening. Basically doing the surgery did not significantly improve mortality or morbidity.
As far as dietary treatment of solid tumor cancer, I’ve seen and known many people over the years that have tried holistic and or chemo, basically if the surgeon can’t cut it out, the prognosis isn’t good. Let me modify that, I have seen a number of women that had positive nodes survive long term after mastectomy and radiation with the radiation probably killing some residual cancer in the lymph nodes.
As far as metabolically starving a cancer cell, I think brain cells are probably more sensitive than cancer cells to low blood sugar so I’m not sure you could eradicate the cancer without gorking yourself in the process.
I’m about two years out from cancer myself. I went with radical surgery and no chemo. Chemo would have reduced my chance of recurrence by about 20% but absolute risk reduction was really about 2% and my chances of permanent nerve damage and or death from treatment was probably higher than that with a 100% risk of being miserable for 6-9 months. So far so good.