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strategies like ketogenic diets or sugar avoidance are generally ineffective in this context. These approaches often accelerate cachexia, a severe form of muscle and weight loss, hastening the progression to mortality. This ineffectiveness is primarily because cancer cells are adept at extracting essential nutrients from muscles (notably glutamine) and other tissues for their sustenance, thereby undermining the intended impact of dietary restrictions.
Drugs That Help Overcome Metabolic Reprogramming in Cancer: Fenbendazole, Sodium dichloroacetate (DCA) and 2-deoxy-d-glucose (2-DG) the 3 drugs have unique, independent and synergistic mechanisms to combat excessive glucose consumption in cancer cells