Study shows putting aggressive cancer on a starvation diet slows tumour growth

Scientists researching one of Britain's deadliest rare cancers, mesothelioma, at Queen Mary's Barts Cancer Institute studied how cancer cells are not able to survive and continue growing when starved of the amino acid 'arginine'. Cells are normally able to make arginine themselves, but research found around half of tumours lacked this ability and need to be fed arginine in order to survive, leaving it vulnerable to starvation...