Journal
BMC MEDICINE
Volume 15, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-017-0873-x
Keywords
Calorie restriction; Chemotherapy; Radiation therapy; Ketogenic diet; Fasting; Metabolism; Autophagy; Cachexia; Insulin-like growth factor 1; Drug resistance
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Funding
- National Cancer Institute [R35CA197627]
- Breast Cancer Research Foundation
- American Institute for Cancer Research [11A003]
- National Institutes of Health [8T32LM012420-02]
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Calorie restriction (CR) extends lifespan and has been shown to reduce age-related diseases including cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases in experimental models. Recent translational studies have tested the potential of CR or CR mimetics as adjuvant therapies to enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and novel immunotherapies. Chronic CR is challenging to employ in cancer patients, and therefore intermittent fasting, CR mimetic drugs, or alternative diets (such as a ketogenic diet), may be more suitable. Intermittent fasting has been shown to enhance treatment with both chemotherapy and radiation therapy. CR and fasting elicit different responses in normal and cancer cells, and reduce certain side effects of cytotoxic therapy. Findings from preclinical studies of CR mimetic drugs and other dietary interventions, such as the ketogenic diet, are promising for improving the efficacy of anticancer therapies and reducing the side effects of cytotoxic treatments. Current and future clinical studies will inform on which cancers, and at which stage of the cancer process, CR, fasting, or CR mimetic regimens will prove most effective.
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