low carb & protein diet

I was diagnosed with stage IV melanoma Jan 2006.  Have gone through     IL2, clinical trials and surgery.  My last surgery Nov 2007.  Luckily my tumors have stayed in the small intestine.  I have been on a 15 gram a day carb & 65 gram protein diet since end of Dec 2007.   The doctor I have been seing wants to starve the cancer by not giving it any sugars. Jan 2008 PET scan showed I was NED.  I was just wondering if anyone else has heard any reports on low carb diets or if they are doing this. 

 

On 3/7/2008 Robbiecat wrote:

I was diagnosed with stage IV melanoma Jan 2006.  Have gone through     IL2, clinical trials and surgery.  My last surgery Nov 2007.  Luckily my tumors have stayed in the small intestine.  I have been on a 15 gram a day carb & 65 gram protein diet since end of Dec 2007.   The doctor I have been seing wants to starve the cancer by not giving it any sugars. Jan 2008 PET scan showed I was NED.  I was just wondering if anyone else has heard any reports on low carb diets or if they are doing this. 

Hi there. Hav look at my poswtng on Ketogenic diets which I am going. Theory is:

- Canver cells are weak.

- Starve body of glucose with diet of 4 units of fat to one unit of ptotein/carb.

- Normal cells can convert fat for energy.

Cancer cells cannot and die.

- UNproven but I am convinced it owtks....very, very difficult to do though.

All the best, Steve in Singapore

 

On 3/7/2008 Robbiecat wrote:

I was diagnosed with stage IV melanoma Jan 2006.  Have gone through     IL2, clinical trials and surgery.  My last surgery Nov 2007.  Luckily my tumors have stayed in the small intestine.  I have been on a 15 gram a day carb & 65 gram protein diet since end of Dec 2007.   The doctor I have been seing wants to starve the cancer by not giving it any sugars. Jan 2008 PET scan showed I was NED.  I was just wondering if anyone else has heard any reports on low carb diets or if they are doing this. 

We have been usinga very low carb diet to treat our son's brain tumor and it has shrunk and then remained stable since April of 2007.My wife is pursuing her MS in nutrition to get the word out about this diet's effect on cancers of all types. If you can scan them using fdg-pet this diet will work for them and because the brain uses so much glucose if you are not on a low carb diet, brain tumors don't show up much on fdg-petbut still respond to a very low carb diet. Please, where are you located and what is your doctor's name.