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| These very few mutated cells may in some way be able to out-compete neighboring cells. While these cells could have advantage over neighboring cells in terms of competitive survival, they may not necessarily be the most effective towards the overall health of the organism. This is an aspect of the aging process. In the case of cancer, the mutated cell proliferation will likely cause an organism's death. | These very few mutated cells may in some way be able to out-compete neighboring cells. While these cells could have advantage over neighboring cells in terms of competitive survival, they may not necessarily be the most effective towards the overall health of the organism. This is an aspect of the aging process. In the case of cancer, the mutated cell proliferation will likely cause an organism's death. | ||
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| + | Mutated cells can happen in different stages of life, and results in [[https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.gde.2016.12.002 |clonal mosaicism]], including where different regions of the body have differing genomes. | ||
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| + | The imperfections in the machinery for DNA maintenance and DNA replication, could be more exact and fault tolerant. However, a certain level of mutation is beneficial for the survival of a species in a changing environment. Cancer and aging are products of the evolutionary process. | ||
| Cells have evolved a very intricate and careful internal balance, and once the balance is tipped, additional mutations are more likely to occur, accelerating the evolutionary process. | Cells have evolved a very intricate and careful internal balance, and once the balance is tipped, additional mutations are more likely to occur, accelerating the evolutionary process. | ||
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| Cancer cells may also separate from their original tissue, circulate in the bloodstream, and take up residence elsewhere. The migration is termed metastasis. | Cancer cells may also separate from their original tissue, circulate in the bloodstream, and take up residence elsewhere. The migration is termed metastasis. | ||
| - | The imperfections in the machinery for DNA maintenance and DNA replication, could be more exact and fault tolerant. However, a certain level of mutation is beneficial for the survival of a species in a changing environment. Cancer and aging are products of the evolutionary process. | + | Because of accelerated evolution in cancer cells, cancer is not a single disease, and treatment or finding a cure is more challenging. However, because cancer cells have an insatiable appetite, required for proliferation, finding weaknesses in their energy metabolism may be a key to treatment. ((Balaraman Kalyanaraman. 2017. Teaching the basics of cancer metabolism: Developing antitumor strategies by exploiting the differences between normal and cancer cell metabolism. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.redox.2017.04.018)) |
| ==== Warburg Effect ==== | ==== Warburg Effect ==== | ||
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| In head and neck cancer, it’s been hypothesized that carbohydrate restriction and ketosis can be supportive treatments by protecting normal tissue while sensitizing tumor tissue to radiation and chemotherapy while simultaneously supporting body and muscle mass maintenance.32 There is currently an active clinical trial looking at a low carbohydrate diet in head and neck cancer patients. | In head and neck cancer, it’s been hypothesized that carbohydrate restriction and ketosis can be supportive treatments by protecting normal tissue while sensitizing tumor tissue to radiation and chemotherapy while simultaneously supporting body and muscle mass maintenance.32 There is currently an active clinical trial looking at a low carbohydrate diet in head and neck cancer patients. | ||
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| - | Of all the food items explored in a 1991 Italian study, such as, milk, meat, cheese, carrots, green vegetables and fruit, fruit had the strongest statistical indication for being a preventative. The top third of subjects reporting the highest fruit consumption had a risk ratio of 0.3, or less than one third as likely to have oral and pharyngeal cancer as the population. ((Carlo La Vecchia et al. 1991. Dietary Indicators of Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/20.1.39)) <- Notice I'm using CSE-ish format! | ||
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| - | Another study took blood samples from 25,802 subjects in 1974, and stored them in the freezer until 1991. Of the 25,802 subjects, 28 cases had been diagnosed with oral and pharyngeal cancer. The blood of the 28 cases was compared with controls from similar subjects, and was found to be lacking in micronutrients, particularly carotenoids and alpha-tocopherol.While interestingly it was also indicated that high level y-tocopherol can change whole scenario and reverse the situation. Selenium which is cancer protective but their high level can be cancer causing((Birt et al., 1986.update on the effects of vitamins A, C, and E and selenium on carcinogenesis..https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3540970 )). while considering all micro nutrient protective effect of b-carotenoids was more consistent and significant. It was was found that diet containing higher concentration of b-carotenoids is more preferable to use to avoid oral cancer risk. | ||
| - | As had been concluded in previous studies, smoking reduces blood micronutrients specially a-tocopherols and b-carotenoids and increases the risk of oral cancer. ((Zheng et al. 1993. Serum Micronutrients and the Subsequent Risk of Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8428360)) | ||
| ==== Endometrial Cancer ==== | ==== Endometrial Cancer ==== | ||
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