Metabolic Oncology

Metabolic Oncology is an emerging medical field that considers both the genetic and metabolic aspects of cancer. It focuses on the unique ways that cancer cells reprogram their energy use to fuel rapid growth and how metabolic dysfunction promotes the development and spread of cancer.

This leads to individualized, integrative strategies that target these metabolic changes alongside traditional cancer screening and treatment to improve outcomes.

Key Principles

• Cancer is both a genetic and metabolic disease
• The metabolic “terrain” influences cancer development and progression
• Lifestyle modifications can alter this terrain to be unfavorable to cancer
• Metabolic interventions complement, rather than replace, traditional oncology

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For a detailed discussion of metabolic oncology, see:

• What is Metabolic Oncology?
• Introduction to Metabolic Oncology