Sentences with phrase «because cancer cell metabolism»

Because cancer cell metabolism relies upon glucose, minimizing a tumor's access to sugar as a means to manage or even limit cancerous cell growth has been the subject of several recent cancer therapy studies.

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Because cancer cells in general are metabolically inflexible, we are able to take advantage of ketone metabolism as a way of placing cancer cells in a weakened state.

The hope is that 3BP specifically kills certain cancer cells — while leaving normal cells alone — because they rely more on glucose metabolism than on an alternative pathway called oxidative phosphorylation.

This is why these two approaches would help with cancer if this theory is correct, because when our energy metabolism shifts to fat or ketones away from glucose, cancer cells can not utilize ketones, but our healthy cells can.