Is sugar consumption harmful for cancer patient?

We encounter many patient who actually believe taking sugar will cause their cancer grow faster... Is that really true?

Cancer cell grows irrespective of patient's nutritional status. All the nutrient a patient consumes will be shared with all cells in the body. Definitely, cancer cell will grab more as cancer cell able to attract more blood vessel to the cancer mass.

However, if patient not eating well for example not taking some essential food like sugar, salt or rice, cancer cell will be forced to extract nutrient from the patient. This result in patient not getting nutrient that he/she suppose to get from food and nutrient loss to cancer cell. Hence patient will become weaker at the rate which is double of usual.

What patient need to do is, eat well and prepare to go to battle field to flight cancer. Get serious & proven standard treatment for this serious disease. Alternative treatment modality without scientific evident lead to miss opportunity for cure or effective symptom control.

Is chemo harmful?

Some people claim that cancer treatment especially chemotherapy and radiotherapy is toxic and harmful. How true is it? Wander why all these treatment modalities are allow to practiced by doctor?

Almost all chemo regimens is recommended based on evident of research studies.. The therapeutic index meaning that at what dose and treatment interval that determine whether the treatment give benefit rather than harm is very narrow. That why, cancer patient need to see an Oncologist for cancer treatment..