Ways of studying the role of the nutrition factor in the development of malignant diseases
Martynenko, A.M.
Voprosy Onkologii 23(9): 70-74
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0507-3758 PMID: 910427 Document Number: 122688
The results of using the dietary regimen, suggested by F. K. Men'shikov and coworkers in 449 patients with pretumor lesions and in 192 patients with malignancies receiving radio- and chemotherapy as well as in 398 patients prior to and after radical surgery for cancer have demonstrated that the diet somewhat improves the efficacy of other medicoprophylactic antitumor measures. The latter contributes to a decreased incidence of pretumor lesions and their less tendency to malignant transformation, to a fall in the intensity of glycolysis processes and enhanced tissue respiration, a lower level of lactic acid and cholesterol in blood. It somewhat suppresses the intensity of malignancies development, reduces the percentage and makes longer the terms of recurrence appearance and contributes to longer survival in oncological patients as well.