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AssigneeThe Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
InventorsXiyan Li, Michael P. Snyder, Xin Wang
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Methods of screening cancerous cells for nutritional weaknesses and methods of treating cancer nutritionally are disclosed. Certain cancers depend on being supplied with one or more nutrients that are non-essential for normal cells. In particular, the invention relates to methods of treating cancer by identifying nutritional weaknesses of cancer cells and using nutritional therapy to suppress cancer by putting a subject on a diet that deprives cancerous cells of a nutrient needed for cancer proliferation and growth. Nutritional therapy can be used to enhance the effectiveness of current cancer treatments.
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A method for reducing or eliminating a subject's daily intake of cysteine or cystine, the method comprising subjecting the subject to a low-cysteine diet that reduces the subject's daily intake of cysteine or cystine in food by at least 50%.
A meal characterized in that:
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