Fasting improves chemotherapy results and protects from side effects: study

Re:Fasting improves chemotherapy results and protects from s... by tyingq on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @08:56AM (#24480668)

Interesting. Though cancers that force you to fast, like stomach or esophageal cancer don't have great 5 year survival rates.

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Re:Fasting improves chemotherapy results and protects from s... by kevinmchugh on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @12:37PM (#24483257)

That's what I keep thinking. One wrinkle here is that the calorie restricted days are those leading up to chemo, which were the only days my dad (who had esophageal cancer) could eat very much.

How could we know if this was survivorship bias? What if the folks who can best comply with the calorie restrictions are those who are already in a good state?

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Re:Fasting improves chemotherapy results and protects from s... by blithedale on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @01:21PM (#24483882)

Their "better response rate" touted at the top ignores the 2/3 of women who couldn't carry out the assigned FMD.

When you fold back in those 2/3 of people on that arm, the response rate is the same:

   "The overall pCR rate was 11.7% and did not differ between the two groups (10.8% in FMD group versus 12.7% in control group; OR 0.830, 95% CI 0.282–2.442, P = 0.735)."

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