Why Targeting Metabolism Is Key in Cancer Treatment

19 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, the speaker—likely a clinician or researcher—emphasizes that manipulating cancer metabolism is essential across all treatment modalities, whether in research or patient care. They note that metabolism is a multifaceted system, not a single target, and caution that interventions aimed at cancer metabolism inevitably also affect the metabolism of normal, healthy tissues in the patient.

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What I've found clinically, both in the research setting and also in treating patients, is that metabolic manipulation of cancer is critical regardless of whatever treatment you're doing. Now, there are many ways into metabolism because metabolism is not one simple thing. And so when we're manipulating the metabolism of cancer, we also need to remember that we're manipulating the metabolism of the normal tissue, the normal part of the person's body.