From a medical point of view, cancer is actually a malignant tumor disease originating from epithelial cells, its main characteristics are abnormal proliferation and cell differentiation, and nowadays, although the social living conditions have been greatly improved, but the clinical incidence of cancer is getting higher and higher, and so far there is no effective way to completely cure cancer, patients can only prolong their life by radiotherapy or chemotherapy, therefore, cancer can be said to be one of the most difficult problems in human history to overcome.
There are many causes of cancer, such as genetic factors, immune system, endocrine radiation and trauma, etc., which may increase the incidence of cancer and endanger personal health.
Nowadays, there are more and more statements about cancer on the Internet, one of which is that cancer can be starved to death through starvation, because cancer often needs to seize the nutrients of normal cells in the human body in the process of its normal growth, only in this way can the growth of cancer cells be accelerated, but if you put yourself in a state of starvation, you may be able to starve cancer cells and let cancer cells slowly apoptosis, but is this statement true or false?
In fact, "starvation" of cancer cells is indeed a means that can be used to treat cancer, and the first person to propose this treatment idea was Professor Faulkman of Harvard University. The basis for this view has been mentioned above, that is, because the tumor needs to have a certain amount of nutritional support in the process of its growth and growth, and once the nutrient supply source is blocked, the normal growth of the tumor will be affected, and eventually it will be starved to death, this kind of therapy is also called starvation therapy by medical practitioners.
However, the starvation of cancer cells as understood by the vast majority of people is not the same as "starvation" in the clinical sense, starvation of cancer cells in the clinical sense is actually a way of interventional therapy, and at present, the means of interventional therapy are not unique, including thrombolysis, carotid artery chemotherapy perfusion and cancer intervention, which we can divide into two types to further understand.
First of all, in the traditional sense, cancer cells are starved to death, mainly through interventional means, which further cut off the way for cancer cells to absorb normal cell nutrients in the body. In this way, the phenomenon of re-division and re-growth of cancer cells can be avoided to a certain extent, and the spread of cancer cells can also be avoided to achieve the purpose of controlling the disease.
Secondly, it directly attacks the cancer tissue, injects drugs that can inhibit the normal growth of cancer cells into the patient's body, and then carries out chemotherapy, and when the drug can effectively play a role in the patient's body, it can attack the cancer cells, and then accurately locate and kill the cancer cells.
In general, the above two types of interventional treatments are used to treat cancer and have more significant results. However, as for the method of starving cancer cells, we must rely on medicine, not blindly use, otherwise it is likely to backfire.