Calorie or carbohydrate restriction? The ketogenic diet as another option for supportive cancer treatment.

What it found

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Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Efficacy of Low-Carbohydrate Ketogenic Diet as an Adjuvant Cancer Therapy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Nutrients · 2021
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2. Anti-Tumor Effects of Ketogenic Diets in Mice: A Meta-Analysis.PloS one · 2016
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3. Ketogenic Diet as an Adjuvant in Epithelial Cancers: Mechanisms, Model Systems, and Translational Opportunities.Cancers · 2026
   Review
4. Application of Bayesian evidence synthesis to modelling the effect of ketogenic therapy on survival of high grade glioma patients.Theoretical biology & medical modelling · 2018
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5. Subcutaneous testosterone-letrozole therapy before and concurrent with neoadjuvant breast chemotherapy: clinical response and therapeutic implications.Menopause (New York, N.Y.) · 2017
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6. Tumor Cells Growth and Survival Time with the Ketogenic Diet in Animal Models: A Systematic Review.International journal of preventive medicine · 2017
   Review
7. Press-pulse: a novel therapeutic strategy for the metabolic management of cancer.Nutrition & metabolism · 2017
   Article
8. Dietary and pharmacological modification of the insulin/IGF-1 system: exploiting the full repertoire against cancer.Oncogenesis · 2016
   Review
9. The glucose ketone index calculator: a simple tool to monitor therapeutic efficacy for metabolic management of brain cancer.Nutrition & metabolism · 2015
   Article
10. Restricting carbohydrates to fight head and neck cancer-is this realistic?Cancer biology & medicine · 2014
    Review
11. Association of cancer metabolism-related proteins with oral carcinogenesis - indications for chemoprevention and metabolic sensitizing of oral squamous cell carcinoma?Journal of translational medicine · 2014
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