Our own Dr. Greathouse was featured in an article titled “Precision Nutrition for Cancer Treatment” for Cancer Health, a website that empowers people living with cancer to actively manage and advocate for their care and improve their overall health.
Read the article here: https://www.cancerhealth.com/article/precision-nutrition-cancer-treatment
An excerpt from the article:
Greathouse sees great potential in precision nutrition but cautions that it will take a lot of research to bring it into the mainstream of clinical practice. “The way most studies have been developed do not lead to any conclusive results about how to best treat specific types of cancer with diet,” she says. “I see precision nutrition happening in two phases. Over the next five to 10 years, nutrition should become part of the standard of care in treatment plans, with clinical trials supporting the use of specific diets. For example, a ketogenic diet may become a standard of care for glioblastoma and a diet high in fiber the standard of care for people with melanoma. It shouldn’t be just an afterthought but a strong component of their immunotherapy or chemotherapy. But we’ll need five to 10 years of randomized placebo-controlled diets to incorporate specific dietary recommendations along with therapy.”
Over a 20-year horizon, she predicts, studies with hundreds of thousands of people could lead to having tumors and the gut microbiome sequenced and dietary intake evaluated. “We’ll be able to develop precision nutrition plans to encourage the growth of microbes to improve response to the type of treatment you are on and to improve survival. But it will take a lot more data.”