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Fasting-mimicking diet plus chemotherapy in breast cancer treatment

Claudio Vernieri, Francesca Ligorio, Emma Zattarin, Licia Rivoltini, Filippo de Braud
fasting; fasting-mimicking diet; inflammation; intermittent fasting; breast cancer
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Key takeaways
  1. 01Examine the impact of fasting-mimicking diets during chemotherapy
  2. 02Acknowledge that this specific trial yielded overall negative results
  3. 03Refine future trial designs to better evaluate nutritional interventions
  4. 04Investigate alternative therapeutic combinations involving fasting-mimicking diets

A fasting-mimicking diet did not show significant benefits during breast cancer chemotherapy in this specific clinical trial.

Abstract

A clinical trial published in Nature Communications examined the effect of fasting-mimicking diet (FMD) during chemotherapy in breast cancer patients. The overall negative study results highlight the need for ameliorating future trial design and investigating alternative FMD-based therapeutic combinations.

Cite this study
APA
Claudio Vernieri, Francesca Ligorio, Emma Zattarin, Licia Rivoltini, & Filippo de Braud (2020). Fasting-mimicking diet plus chemotherapy in breast cancer treatment.
MLA
Claudio Vernieri, et al. "Fasting-mimicking diet plus chemotherapy in breast cancer treatment." 2020.
Chicago
Claudio Vernieri et al. 2020. "Fasting-mimicking diet plus chemotherapy in breast cancer treatment."