[HN Gopher] Cancer has ripple effect on distant tissues
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Cancer has ripple effect on distant tissues
Author : gmays
Score : 27 points
Date : 2021-05-14 19:17 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| tyingq wrote:
| There's also the separate effect on distant tissues from
| radiation, chemo, and surgery. Gastrointestinal surgery, for
| example, can have pretty disruptive effects that aren't really
| related to cancer directly.
| hluska wrote:
| This is a poignant reminder of something awful a close relative
| said to me while she was undergoing cancer treatments. She
| talked about how she had an aggressive form of cancer, surgery,
| chemo and radiation. Between the four, she never knew whether
| something was a symptom of getting worse, a side effect of
| treatment or just one of the weird things that bodies do. The
| part I still find troubling is that she said that after a
| certain point, she realized her doctors weren't sure either.
| autojoechen wrote:
| The article seems to be talking about two potentially unrelated
| effects - up-regulation of gluconeogenesis in the liver and
| BCAT1. The gluconeogenesis makes sense in the presence of
| glucose-hungry cells, the body would start making its own to
| stabilize blood sugar. I wonder what the signal mechanism is for
| the BCAT1 up-regulation?
| agumonkey wrote:
| talking about glucose and tumors, anybody knows some good reads
| about benefits of ketogenic or similarly low sugar diets in
| regards to cancer ?
| bawolff wrote:
| If you pick your reading based on the answer you want to
| hear, you're only going to ever get confirmation bias.
| agumonkey wrote:
| I'm not thank you
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