Friday, August 06, 2010

Cancer cells feed on fructose, study finds - Health - Cancer - msnbc.com

Cancer cells feed on fructose, study finds - Health - Cancer - msnbc.com: "Heaney said his team found otherwise. They grew pancreatic cancer cells in lab dishes and fed them both glucose and fructose.
Tumor cells thrive on sugar but they used the fructose to proliferate. 'Importantly, fructose and glucose metabolism are quite different,' Heaney's team wrote."

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