Therapeutic Starvation And Autophagy In Prostate Cancer: A New Paradigm For Targeting Metabolism In Cancer Therapy

UroToday.com - In the online edition of The Prostate, Robert S. DiPaola and co-investigators reported their research on autophagy. Autophagy is a mechanism of cellular resistance or alternatively cell death. Cancer metabolism differs from normal cells in that it uses anaerobic glycolysis as opposed to oxidative phosphorylation to metabolize glucose.

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Filed under: Cancer on October 28th, 2008