The Growth Factors, Nutrients and Cancer group of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) defends the importance of taking diet into account in treatments. The work focuses on calorie restriction, the ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting.
Data suggest that the growth of some cancers may depend heavily on specific amino acids, and that avoiding foods rich in these amino acids could limit tumor growth. The authors point to the need to develop precision nutrition, a novel approach that proposes the use of targeted dietary regimens to treat specific tumors.