Cancer exists as a leading cause of death worldwide, treatments are available in a wide range but also side effects are harshly associated to it. Chemotherapy is most widely suited and recommended treatment of any cancer type. It is the conventional concept that chemotherapy drugs selectively killed damaged cells but novel generated facts explores that they also damages the normal cells also by the dependence of dosing. Hence, there exist fact to develop the approaches that destroys specifically the malignant cells but not the normal cells[1].
Low or no calorie intake is known to be effective against many diseases specifically cancer. Short term starvation is more effective in protecting the normal cells as well as lowering the possible side effects generated by chemotherapy drugs to some extent. …show more content…
Balance of cell energy is normally said to be in between cell growth, reproduction and maintenance. During the phenomena of starvation cell energy is diverted to the maintenance system, but cancer cells being mutated, shows no response to stress conditions like starvation and gets selectively killed by chemotherapeutic