[Lani]

I would therefore hope you wouldn't run away from big words and abbreviations

Also, that you would remember from your basic biochemistry (mine was 34 years ago) that all food sugar,starch, fat, protein is broken down to glucose before it can be used.

There are two ways the body can use glucose for energy--one pathway uses oxygen to burn it (oxidative phosphorylation) and the other is only used when not enough oxygen is available (in a runner who runs past their aerobic capacity or a tumor cell which has outgrown its blood supply).

This article does not advocate or even address whether exercise is good for cancer.

Sorry to sound so School-marmish, but many if not most of those who read these posts have FAR LESS FORMAL EDUCATION IN THE SCIENCES THAN YOU.

Those faced with recent diagnoses, recent recurrences or just plain fear of the unknown have many justifiable reasons to wish to avoid reading posts with too much scientific lingo or concepts. Many just don't have the background.

Many put a LOT of effort in and become self-taught and do REMARKABLY WELL understanding the complicated biology of new findings regarding breast cancer.

I posted this in the main forum as it was a major change to how cancer may be attacked.

I have been asked to, and previously provided, "translation" of abstracts which were deemed too technical and have done so. In this case, I provided the general article from the press along with the abstract, hoping the medical writer would know how to provide knowledge at a level helpful to all.

I often feel oncologists don't want to be scientists but rather go the easy way and follow a "recipe" unaltered ie, give a for b, c for d, e for f without modification or engaging their mind as if there might be a better treatment for any individual patient.

Your attitide--don't give me long words, just tell me what to do--is the patient's equivalent--don't give me details or reasons, just tell me what to do. This is perilous in the case of cancer, as dogmatic "knowledge " frequently proves wrong a few years later, making understanding of science (which helps one understand whether something intuitively "makes sense") all the more important in decision-making. ie, since more is unknown than known, educating yourself about recent discoveries helps when time comes to make decisions.

Perhaps you are just fed-up today, perhaps you had some bad news. I really think this article is GOOD NEWS. See if you can get past the "high-sounding words" and realize that this article has nothing to do with what you should or shouldn't eat, rather it shows the way to how to develop drugs which will effect only the cancer cells (AS NORMAL CELLS ONLY USE THIS PATHWAY 10% OF THE TIME) IN SUCH A FUNDAMENTAL WAY, THAT IT IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY THEY WILL FIND A WAY TO MUTATE TO GET AROUND THE TARGETTED ATTACK.

AGAIN, I am sorry to "lay it on" but many put lots of effort into trying to understand this disease and I had hoped your background would make this less of an effort in your case than in that of the majority.