2014年5月29日 星期四

癌症患者宜:卡路里少進、維持"健康的"體重、注意飲食

Dieting may strengthening the tissue surrounding the tumour, helping to prevent the cancer from spreading, say researchers from Thomas Jefferson University.
Daily Mail
 
 
 
 
 

Eating fewer calories boosts cancer survival: Study finds it reduces the risk of disease spreading to other organs

  • Reducing calorie intake by a third improved breast cancer survival rate
  • Dieting may strengthen tissue around tumour so cancer cells can't spread
  • Maintaining a healthy weight also makes treatment more effective

Cutting calories reduces the likelihood of one type of breast cancer (pictured) migrating to other organs
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A low calorie diet may help prevent the spread of one of the deadliest forms of breast cancer.
Scientists believe that radiotherapy used to treat tumours would be more effective if women were eating a third less than usual.
In the US study a low calorie diet appeared to prevent the spread of triple negative breast cancer, a particularly aggressive form of the disease.
It affects around a fifth of all women with breast cancer – about 10,000 new cases a year – and is more common in the under-40s.
It spreads very quickly, with tumours often returning after treatment.
One theory is that dieting may decrease chance of cancer spreading by strengthening the tissue surrounding the tumour.
Many breast cancer patients are treated with hormonal therapy to block tumour growth and steroids to counteract the side effects of chemotherapy.
But both treatments can alter the metabolism - which in turn, can trigger weight gain, with the average woman gaining 10lb in the first year of treatment.
Previous studies have shown that being overweight makes breast cancer treatment less effective, and those who gain weight during treatment have worse cancer outcomes.
'That's why it's important to look at metabolism when treating women with cancer,' said study leader Dr Nicole Simone, from the department of Radiation Oncology at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia. 
The study involved feeding one group of mice a third less than another group.
'We found that the diet turned on a programme that protected mice from metastatic disease,' explained Dr Simone.
The study, published in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, found that in the dieting mice, cancer cells decreased their production of microRNAs 17 and 20 (miR 17/20).
 

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