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Here is a quote from the web site Lolly gave us:
"By slowing the cancer's growth, patients allow their immune systems and medical debulking therapies -- chemotherapy, radiation and surgery to reduce the bulk of the tumor mass -- to catch up to the disease.
Controlling one's blood-glucose levels through diet, supplements, exercise, meditation and prescription drugs when necessary can be one of the most crucial components to a cancer recovery program. The sound bite -- sugar feeds cancer -- is simple. The explanation is a little more complex."
I, too, was not given much nutritional info by my med onc (there now IS a very good nutritionist on staff who has been helping me with my calcium level which is borderline low). It was one of the nurses who saw me eating some chocolate pudding that felt ok with my mouth sores who made a comment like the above quote. You can believe that it took me just about 10 seconds to make the connection. I immediately cut my sugar intake by 50% and even lower. (Still have to have my semi-sweet chocolate from time to time!)
I think this cutting of simple sugars did have an affect on my liver mets.
Now I do not miss this sugar and still am careful to read labels and keep the sugar intake low.
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