Tumour growth can be slowed or stopped by starving cancer cells of a nutrient commonly found in meat, fish and dairy products, a local study has found.
He said the team found that starving lung cancer cells of methionine for 48 hours resulted in a"dramatic" 94 per cent reduction in tumour size compared to a control sample. "We hope that this approach of targeting the nutrient dependency of cancer stem cells can offer another way of treating lung cancer and other solid tumours," Dr Tan said, adding that the study found a similar dependency in breast cancer, ovarian cancer and leukaemia.
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