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Can You Have A "Sweet Tooth" With Prostate Cancer?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Dec 20 8:38am | Replies (15)Comment receiving replies
Without being specific to carrot juice……. Many types of cancers gobble up sugar - lymphoma, lung, and brain cancers (just to name a few) are very avid for sugar (glucose).
With this in mind, years ago (in 1999) a glucose-based PET scan - F18-FDG (Fluoro-2-Deoxyglucose) PET CT - was developed. It worked great for detecting lymphoma, lung, and brain cancers; it didn’t work so well for detecting low-grade prostate cancer (but, it did work well for detecting advanced prostate cancers).
Here’s a short PCRI presentation from 2019 that discusses this topic: https://youtu.be/-PyqazlkpCE
Jusf as with most things in life, all cancers are not created equal. What you’ll often read is that a heart-healthy diet is a prostate-healthy diet.
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@brianjarvis Thanks! It's interesting from a diagnostic PoV that various cancers react differently to sugar in scans.
That doesn't necessarily indicate anything about a diet:cancer link, of course, but perhaps there will be enough research someday to establish a connection (not necessarily the one we'd expect).