Fasting in oncology: a word of caution.

What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

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

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7. Effects of dietary intervention on human diseases: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic potential.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2024
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8. Safety and Feasibility of Fasting-Mimicking Diet and Effects on Nutritional Status and Circulating Metabolic and Inflammatory Factors in Cancer Patients Undergoing Active Treatment.Cancers · 2021
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9. The Clinical Value of Nutritional Care before and during Active Cancer Treatment.Nutrients · 2021
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12. Adipocytes in hematopoiesis and acute leukemia: friends, enemies, or innocent bystanders?Leukemia · 2020
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13. Fatty Acids and Membrane Lipidomics in Oncology: A Cross-Road of Nutritional, Signaling and Metabolic Pathways.Metabolites · 2020
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14. Energy Restriction and Colorectal Cancer: A Call for Additional Research.Nutrients · 2020
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15. Dietary Factors in the Control of Gut Homeostasis, Intestinal Stem Cells, and Colorectal Cancer.Nutrients · 2019
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16. Starvation-Induced Differential Virotherapy Using an Oncolytic Measles Vaccine Virus.Viruses · 2019
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17. Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2019
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Authors and funding

4 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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