Top oncologist to study effect of diet on cancer drugs
by Hannah Devlin Science correspondent from Science | The Guardian on (#3TDNR)
Siddhartha Mukherjee says trial is first in a series on 'rethinking human diets for cancer'
A groundbreaking clinical trial on whether diet could boost the effectiveness of cancer drugs is set to be launched by one of the world's leading oncologists.
The work, led by Siddhartha Mukherjee at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, will investigate whether a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet could improve outcomes for patients with lymphoma and endometrial cancer.
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