I don't want to be some kind of an ass, but there's a growing body of opinion within the medical community that cancer is indicative of a metabolic disease. A lot of people think that this guy is crap science but his advice is generally good. Here is a link and the summary in quotes -
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/03/10/ketogenic-diet.aspxQuote (Article Summary)
Many cancer patients have reportedly overcome the disease by adopting a ketogenic diet, which calls for eliminating carbohydrates, replacing them with healthy fats and protein
Animal studies have shown that mice fed a carb-free diet survived highly aggressive metastatic cancer even better than those treated with chemotherapy
Your normal cells have the metabolic flexibility to adapt from using glucose to using ketone bodies. Cancer cells lack this metabolic flexibility, so when you eliminate carbs, which turn into sugar, you effectively starve the cancer
Eating fat is NOT bad for your heart. Particularly beneficial fats include coconut oil, butter, organic pastured eggs, avocado and raw nuts. Most people need as much as 50-70 percent healthful fat in their diet to optimize health
The other lifestyle factors are also worth a read. I hope you can beat this episode but doing exercise + IF and maybe a keto cycling diet and a few basic dietary supplements would definitely help out anybody's 5 year prognosis.
This post was edited by general_patton on May 9 2013 12:20am