Pillar 1 - FTO (new thread), page-665

Out of left field, but in my view relevant to this thread.

Maybe 20 years ago I decided that if I ever got cancer, I would ignore the medical establishment and basically starve myself to the point where either the cancer died or I did.
The scientific basis for this is here:
http://www.nutritionandcancer.org/view/nutritionandcancer/oism_nac.pdf
with a short lay summary here:
http://www.nutritionandcancer.org/view/nutritionandcancer/s99p1074.htm
(An excerpt from the latter is quoted below, italicised).

So - the practical forced elimination of fat mass might eliminate cancer?

Just throwing it in, in the hope a smarter cookie than me might might find it of interest and possibly make some connections.

One final note, describing one of many human stories that I have heard over the years:

A surgeon telephoned me to ask some questions about this diet. During the conversation, he told me why he had become interested in it (to the great displeasure of his colleagues).

A patient had come to him in whose throat was growing a completely inoperable and soon-to-be-fatal cancer. He told the patient that there was nothing he could do for him and that he would soon die.

The patient, however, went to Ann Wigmore's establishment and started eating their initial diet of strictly raw fruits and vegetables. He pursued this fanatically, however, and never switched to Wigmore and Hunsberger's phase-two diet including additional staples.

Many months later, the patient returned to the surgeon. The surgeon told me that there were three things that were unusual about this patient.

1. He was back. He should already have been long dead.

2. There was not a trace of cancer in his throat.

3. He looked like he had just stepped out of a Nazi or Communist concentration camp. The patient was almost dead of malnutrition. He was a walking skeleton.

The surgeon nursed him back to good nutritional health - but the cancer never returned.