Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment

Re:Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment by epmaybe on Monday September 02, 2019 @01:08PM (#20860429)

What do you mean limited funding? Seems like there's a TON of funding for cancer research right now, given the moonshot campaign (extra $1.8B over 7 years).

It's hard to study something like this, because you have to find a large enough population for the statistics to work out, but also keep the study going long enough without massive attrition (would have to do intent-to-treat) to have results worth publishing.

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Re:Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment by Merrill on Monday September 02, 2019 @01:40PM (#20860648)

There is probably limited funding for this because even if it is true, it will not result in a large stream of revenue for anyone. In fact, if it works it might reduce some health industry organizations' revenues.

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