If you starve a body of elements essential to survival, can cancer cells be killed?

Question

If you put a body through near death to kill off it's cell, what is the likelihood that cancer cells would die 1st, or at least before the cells we absolutely need?

Answer 1

It depends...

Cancer is generally a type of mutation, so as long as the host is alive, the cancer has a food source...

Chemotherapy works similarly. It tries to poison the body, in hopes that the cancer will die first!

Answer 2

Good question, and studies have been done on that issue, Here is some of the research--


There are more and more reports by establishment oncologists doubting the value of chemotherapy, even to the point of rejecting it outright. One of these, cancer biostatistician Dr. Ulrich Abel, of Heidelberg, Germany, issued a monograph titled Chemotherapy of Advanced Epithelial Cancer in 1990. Epithelial cancers comprise the most common forms of adenocarcinoma: lung, breast, prostate, colon, etc. After ten years as a statistician in clinical oncology, Abel became increasingly uneasy. "A sober and unprejudiced analysis of the literature," he wrote, "has rarely revealed any therapeutic success by the regimens in question in treating advanced epithelial cancer." While chemotherapy is being used more and more extensively, more than a million people die worldwide of these cancers annually - and a majority have received some form of chemotherapy before dying. Abel further concluded, after polling hundreds of cancer doctors, "The personal view of many oncologists seems to be in striking contrast to communications intended for the public." Abel cited studies that have shown "that many oncologists would not take chemotherapy themselves if they had cancer." (The Cancer Chronicles, December, 1990.)
"Even though toxic drugs often do effect a response, such as a partial or complete shrinkage of the tumor, this reduction does not prolong expected survival," Abel finds. "Sometimes, in fact, the cancer returns more aggressively than before, since the chemo fosters the growth of resistant cell lines." Besides, the chemo has severely damaged the body's own defenses, the immune system and often the kidneys as well as the liver.
In an especially dramatic table, Dr. Abel displays the results of chemotherapy in patients with various types of cancers, as the improvement of survival rates, compared to untreated patients. This table shows:
-In colorectal cancer: No evidence survival is improved.
-Gastric cancer: No clear evidence.
-Pancreatic cancer: Study completely negative. Longer survival in control (untreated) group.
-Bladder: No clinical trial done.
-Breast cancer: No direct evidence that chemotherapy prolongs survival; its use is "ethically questionable."
-Ovarian cancer: No direct evidence.
-Cervix and uterus: No improved survival.
-Head and neck: No survival benefit but occasional shrinkage of tumors.

Answer 3

I am not an expert but have read some on this and i do see where it is coming from but, even wtih only a short period of starving yoru cells of any nutrients, would you not at the same time starve off your immune system? Just a thought.

Answer 4

I have survived cancer 5 times. To kill the cancer cells first, your mind must be stronger than your body. Do you wish to live, exist, or decease. which cells will you kill?

Answer 5

the cancer cell will be the last to die, as they live of weak other cells. If you starve those, they become an even easier target.

Answer 6

yes the cancer cell will die but not first as they are well supplied by blood vessels and as you know blood supplies neccery nutrients and take away the waste products. so you will die first then only the cancer cells.