UCSF Press Release by Levi Gadye, "A Ketogenic Diet Could Improve the Response to Pancreatic Cancer Therapy" highlights scientific discovery by UCSF Scientists.
A way to get rid of pancreatic cancer in mice by putting them on a high fat, or ketogenic, diet and giving them cancer therapy. Davide Ruggero, PhD, Goldberg-Benioff Endowed Professor and American Cancer Society Research Professor in the Departments of Urology and Cellular Molecular Pharmacology at UCSF says, "This is the foundation for a new way to treat cancer with diet and personalized therapies."
Read the Press Release: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/08/428251/ketogenic-diet-could-improve-response-pancreatic-cancer-therapy
Read the publication: Yang, H., Zingaro, V.A., Lincoff, J. et al. Remodelling of the translatome controls diet and its impact on tumorigenesis. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07781-7