How cancer spreads to other locations

Posted by jeff Marchi @jeffmarc, Apr 12 11:26am

This article discusses the techniques used by cancer to live in other parts of the body. Very often when cancer moves, the nutrients it was living on no longer exist, yet they still spread.

Interesting statement made about vitamin E being linked to increased prostate cancer rates in healthy men.

https://www.medscape.com/s/viewarticle/how-cancer-cells-travel-new-tissues-and-take-hold-2025a10007rt

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hans_casteels | @hanscasteels | Apr 12 12:04pm

wow

heavyphil | @heavyphil | Apr 13 8:12am

Please stop finding these articles, jeff!!🤯🤯🤯. It seems that cancer cells are the closest thing to life “everlasting”
and not true love.
So as we have so often repeated, DON’T take ANTIOXIDANTS for cancer!! Your radiation/ADT puts the cancer cells close to death via oxidative stress, but if you give them “anti” oxidants you help them survive.
They also point out that cancer cells can adapt, shift or completely change their metabolisms. So depriving them of glucose, glutamine, fat, carbs or whatever nonsensical thing some book author can come up with, cancer cells are gonna grow…
Finally, maybe people will listen?? Probably not… Thanks for the read,
Phil

bens1 | @bens1 | Apr 13 9:01am

@jeffmarc

While it would be great to take less vitamin E and feel confident that it is helping, I would prefer to see more formalized randomized studies before making a definitive decision on supplements having an impact on cancer cells. I would hate to take something and have a biological re-occurrence wondering whether I caused it with increased supplements, without more substantial studies to at least give me a higher confidence level regarding the outcome.

topf | @topf | Apr 13 9:11am

In reply to @heavyphil "Please stop finding these articles, jeff!!🤯🤯🤯. It seems that cancer cells are the closest thing to..." + (show)

According to the article, unrelated to radiation and ADT, antoxidants may foster metastases survival.

smoore4 | @smoore4 | Apr 13 11:44am

I have a paid version of AI - Gemini Advanced. With stuff like this i ask "Summarize the article" then "Tell me more about oxidative stress mentioned in the article."

It comes back with a much easier version to read. And, it basically says exactly what @heavyphil said.

Free version works too of course.
https://gemini.google.com
https://chatgpt.com