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. 2017 Feb;34(Suppl 1):37S-42S.

Ketogenic Diets and Cancer: Emerging Evidence

Jocelyn Tan-Shalaby  1
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Ketogenic Diets and Cancer: Emerging Evidence

Jocelyn Tan-Shalaby. Fed Pract. 2017 Feb.

Abstract

Combining a ketogenic diet with standard chemotherapeutic and radiotherapeutic options may help improve tumor response, although more research is needed.

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Author disclosure The author reports no actual or potential conflicts of interest with regard to this article.

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Ketogenic Diet Metabolic Pathways
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Macronutrient Composition of Ketogenic Diets
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Macronutrient Composition of Modified Ketogenic (Atkins) Diets
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Macronutrient Composition of Standard Diets
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