One Renegade Cell

I just read the above book on cancer by Robert A. Weinberg. His background is in cancer research at MIT.  The book was published over 20 years ago, so I am sure there is more current information. I was attracted to it because it is part of a series, and I found other books in the series to be quite good.

Anyway, it did go into sufficient detail to add to my knowledge.  He made a number of predictive statements that turned out to be accurate.  The one predictive statement he made that leads  to this post is that he felt the successful treatment of cancer in the long term future was going to be through prevention.

Did he mention ‘starving’ the cancer? I heard that a strict diet that lacks the foods that fuel cancer to grow can be effective .

He used the concept.. not the word.   For example he discussed how the combination of smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol was begging for cancer.
He also discussed the prevalence of types of cancer worldwide wide and connected that to diet in those regions along with the implied trade offs I seldom hear about.   For example, he mentions that country X had 10x the colon cancer rate of region  Y.  Something I often hear. But then he goes on to address why region Y has a much higher liver cancer rate than country X.   And yes, he connects this to the diet of both.