%0 Journal Article
%T Starvation as a weapon against cancer
%A Robert Skopec
%J Biocoreopen
%D 2017
%X Many researchers dream about taking the approach a cut off food supply to fight cancer. As it can be known, tumors, being rapidly growing tissues, need more food than healthy cells do. Cutting off the food supply may be a good way to kill the out of control cells. While logical in theory, this approach has proved challenging in practice, because starvation harms patients too. In particular, it damages cells called tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), that are one of the immune systema£¿£¿s main anti-cancer weapons
%U https://biocoreopen.org/ijcer/Starvation-as-a-weapon-against-cancer.php