Arturo LoAIza-Bonilla, Medical Oncologist and Principal Investigator at St. Luke’s University Health Network, shared on X:

“For clinicians, patients often ask two similar but fundamentally different questions:

‘Did sugar cause my cancer?’ and ‘Is sugar feeding my cancer?’

Arturo Loaiza-Bonilla, said the latter, which is a progression question, is raised by patients constantly.

A tumor ‘will eat anything that is on its way, glucose or fat or protein’

He said, systemwide chief of hematology and oncology at St. Luke’s University Health Network in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. So ‘nobody should take away milkshakes from their diet’ due to fear of feeding cancer.

Patients undergoing treatment also need calories to tolerate therapy, he said, and there is no established evidence that restricting sugar improves outcomes for people who already have cancer.”