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Ep113: Lewis Cantley & Siddhartha Mukherjee on Fighting Cancer with Food and Drugs

The Long Run with Luke Timmerman

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Breast Cancer - Do Dietary Interventions Really Work?

We think, based on our pre clinical studies, mouse models and breast cancer, that we can shrink tumors, not just slow down their growth. And so that with that drug, the same drug, will shrink tumors if you put them on this hetogenic insolent lowering diet. So to prove that this is true, that the dietary intervention really does improve the response, you have to do a clinical trial where you have an arm that's the standard of care with the drug, and an arm that has the dietary intervention plus the drug. The patients have to be randomized into both trials. And there have to be enough patients to prove whether you are really getting a life extension or progression free

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