Why a case report being circulated by advocates doesn't show that the ketogenic diet combats cancer

In conclusion, this combined metabolic approach appears effective in treating advanced TNBC, given this patient’s complete response with a good quality of life.Now, there is one thing that is interesting here. The doses of chemotherapy used were considerably lower thanwhat is usually used, with doses decreased by at least half or more. Does this mean anything? Who knows? cPR rates for TNBC have been reported to range from 20-35%. It could mean the regimen made the chemotherapy more effective, or it could mean that this woman just happened to have a particularly chemosensitive tumor. Even if we take this case report at face value and accepted that chemotherapy efficacy had been improved, there's no way of knowing what did it. Was it the ketogenic diet? Was it the hyperthermia? Was it the IPT? (Actually, we know it almost certainly wasn't the IPT based onwhat is already known; certainly no studies of long term survival have been published.)In any case, what we have here is a patient with stage 4 TNBC who underwent chemotherapy and surgery, showed a dramatic response, and then underwent surgery. She had a complete radiological response of her metastases (they were no longer detectable on imaging studies) and a complete pathologic response on her surgical specimen. She was alive six months after she started treatment. Assuming she's alive now, she's been alive a little more than a year with her diagnosis. That's nowhere outside the range of survival for stage 4 breast cancer, w...
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