Ketogenic diet, is it worth trying for patients with advanced cancer?

Dr. Clove has recommended two popular science articles related to ketogenic diet before. Is the legendary anti-cancer [ketogenic diet] really useful? > > and < < Ketogenic Therapy Can [Starve] Cancer Cells? > >, I happen to be engaged in relevant work and have some of my own ideas and experiences. I hope I can communicate with you. First, ketogenic diet is effective in treating epilepsy. Ketogenic diet, as one of the methods to treat refractory epilepsy, has been effective since it was invented in 1920s. From 2007 to 2008, Dr. Liao Jianxiang of Shenzhen Children’s Hospital and the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, where I am located, introduced this therapy into China. Our experience is: 1/3 patients Read More …

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Clinical trial, am I a mouse?

In the publicity column of large hospitals, I sometimes see such recruitment advertisements, < < so-and-so clinical trials recruit volunteers > >. Some patients are eager to try after seeing them, but more patients are deterred after seeing them. What leads to the deterrence is such a question: [clinical trials], do you take me as a mouse? According to the global clinical trial progress report of the Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR), from 2000 to 2006, the number of subjects participating in global clinical trials accounted for 41% in the United States, while the proportion in China was less than 1%. The data gap between China and the United States brings us such a thinking. Is China’s clinical trials really a Read More …