Everything still hadn’t fully sunken in when I met with the first radiation oncologist a few days later. I walked into this new facility and sat in the waiting room. I looked around and saw that there were free sodas, snack bars, and candy bars for patients in the waiting room. At first, I can’t believe it. Oncologists giving their cancer patients free concentrated sugar? Surely they have read the studies that show sugar feeds cancer. After all, one of the scans they use to detect tumors measures the rapid uptake of glucose by cancer cells because of their increased metabolic need for energy. My mind wants to go to a conspiracy theory but I resist. Stay focused Keith. This is going to be an important conversation.
How Not to Treat Patients - 006
How Not to Treat Patients - 006
How Not to Treat Patients - 006
Everything still hadn’t fully sunken in when I met with the first radiation oncologist a few days later. I walked into this new facility and sat in the waiting room. I looked around and saw that there were free sodas, snack bars, and candy bars for patients in the waiting room. At first, I can’t believe it. Oncologists giving their cancer patients free concentrated sugar? Surely they have read the studies that show sugar feeds cancer. After all, one of the scans they use to detect tumors measures the rapid uptake of glucose by cancer cells because of their increased metabolic need for energy. My mind wants to go to a conspiracy theory but I resist. Stay focused Keith. This is going to be an important conversation.