Keto diet supplement may help 'kill' cancer

A simple dietary supplement in a ketogenic diet can boost 'CAR T' cell function — a personalized treatment that reprograms patients' own immune cells to kill cancer, according to a new study.

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While the approach needs to be assessed in clinical trials, the early research hints at a potentially cost-effective strategy to improve CAR T cell function and cancer-fighting abilities, according to a study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center in the US.

"Thousands of patients with blood cancers have been successfully treated with CAR T cell therapy, but it still doesn't work for everyone," said co-lead author Shan Liu, a postdoctoral fellow.