What Researchers Did
Doctors reported on a single 47-year-old woman with end-stage breast cancer who was treated with a combination of metabolically supported chemotherapy, a ketogenic diet, hyperthermia, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
What They Found
This is a case report describing one patient with T4N3M1 (end-stage, spread to distant sites) breast cancer who received six months of combined metabolically supported chemotherapy, ketogenic diet, hyperthermia, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and the abstract states that this protocol eliminated all detectable lesions. The study title describes the outcome as a complete and durable response. As a single case, this result comes from one patient and does not include a comparison group.
Canadian Relevance
No direct Canadian connection identified.
Study Limitations
As a single-patient case report with no control group, this study cannot establish that the treatment caused the outcome or that similar results would occur in other patients.