Do cancer cells care if their host is hungry?
A recent report by Kalaany and Sabatini concerning mechanisms underlying the inhibitory effect of dietary restriction on the growth of certain tumors adds to the evidence that insulin and IGF-I are hormones with relevance to oncology.
Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. michael.pollak@mcgill.ca
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D007328:Insulin; D007334:Insulin-Like Growth Factor I; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D055372:AMP-Activated Protein Kinases; D051059:PTEN Phosphohydrolase; C487757:Pten protein, mouse