{"id":25270,"date":"2019-11-05T14:33:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T03:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25270"},"modified":"2019-11-05T14:33:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T03:33:27","slug":"what-have-pharma-cured-fasting-could-help-treat-most-common-childhood-leukemia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25270","title":{"rendered":"What Have Pharma Cured? Fasting could help treat most common childhood leukemia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"888\" height=\"499\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Five_Cures.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Five_Cures.jpg 888w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Five_Cures-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Five_Cures-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tommy Wells adds, this one&#8217;s a better write-up and suggests chemo may be replaced by fasting\u2026.&#8221;Chemotherapy is the primary treatment for children with ALL, and more than 95 percent of children achieve remission after 1 month of induction chemotherapy &#8211; that is, they show no signs of leukemia in bone marrow samples after an intense chemotherapy drug regimen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, this does not always mean the cancer has gone for good; the disease returns for around 15-20 percent of children who are treated for ALL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the new study, senior author Dr. Chengcheng Zhang, associate professor of physiology at the University of Texas Southwestern (UT Southwestern) Medical Center, and colleagues suggest fasting could be a feasible treatment for childhood ALL.: Intermittent fasting cleared cancer cells, increased survival of ALL&#8221; micehttps:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/314708.php<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/314708.php\">https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/314708.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Wells adds, this one&#8217;s a better write-up and suggests chemo may be replaced by fasting\u2026.&#8221;Chemotherapy is the primary treatment for children with ALL, and more than 95 percent of children achieve remission after 1 month of induction chemotherapy &#8211; that is, they show no signs of leukemia in bone marrow samples after an intense &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25270\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Have Pharma Cured? Fasting could help treat most common childhood leukemia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25272,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25270\/revisions\/25272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}