Sickeningly Sweet

“It’s an addiction,” maintains Dr. Cantley, the Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine, who was inspired to become a sugar teetotaler when he saw friends and relatives struggling with their weight in the ’70s, at the dawn of the American obesity epidemic. But according to an accumulating body of research by Dr. Cantley and his team at Weill Cornell Medicine, excess sugar also helps many types of cancer to grow more rapidly. Dr. Marcus Goncalves, an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and an endocrinology fellow in the Cantley Lab, and Dr. Vicky Makker, a clinical investigator and gynecological medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, are working with Dr. Hootman and the CTSC to investigate whether a ketogenic diet reduces tumor growth in pre-surgical patients with endometrial cancer.

Source: news.weill.cornell.edu