Specialists have developed a new method of hunger-based treatment for cancer.
Researchers at the University of Colorado, have developed a new mechanism for treating cancer by reducing glucose uptake into cancer cells, a biomaterial that provides malignant cells with the energy needed to divide.
Scientists first reduced the amount of glucose, then cut it off completely from the cells.
Scientists then observed that disabling CDK8 genes (responsible for the energy reserve and credit for survival of cancer cells despite nutrient deficiencies) help reduce glucose uptake and kill malignant cells in general.
Gene therapy, according to the researchers, will soon allow the development of new methods more effective in the treatment of malignant tumors, and accelerate medical procedures in this area.