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[[File:CancerAwareness.jpg|right|thumb|500px|Cancer is a leading cause of death in the western world, accounting for 1,600 deaths per day in the US alone.]]
The [[Ketogenic Diet]] may help with the treatment of cancer, including brain tumors<ref name="Seyfried-2011"/><ref name="Seyfried-2009"/><ref name="Seyfried-2005"/>. Must Most of the available information comes from animal experiments, backed up with a few human case studies, but things look promising and [http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/search/view?cdrid=742309&version=HealthProfessional human trials are occurring]. There are even researchers who believe that the origin of cancer lies with metabolic abnormalities that lead to genetic problems rather than the genetic problems being the root cause<ref name="SeyfriedFlores2013"/>. Note that while the [[Ketogenic Diet as a Treatment| Ketogenic Diet may help with a number of diseases]], the [[Health Risks of the Ketogenic Diet| Ketogenic Diet also has some health risks]]. There are no indications that the Ketogenic Diet is a viable alternative to existing, traditional treatments, but it may become an important way of improving the success of the current approaches.
=How the Ketogenic Diet may help=
There may be several mechanisms behind the effect of the ketogenic diet on cancer.
[[File:KetogenicCancerTimeline.jpg|none|thumb|500px|Timeline of the treatment of a 65 year old woman with Glioblastoma multiforme ..]]
=Non-Ketogenic Fat Intake and Cancer=
There are a number of studies that have looked at the general relationship between fat intake and cancer. [[Omega 3]] may help inhibit cancer, while [[Omega 6]] and to a lesser extent saturated fats may exacerbate cancer.
* Fat intake in a non-ketogenic diet impacts tumor growth<ref name="Welsch-1992"/>.
* [[Omega 3]] supplementation may improve the effectiveness of conventional chemotherapy and radiation therapy treatments of cancer<ref name="Hardman-2004"/><ref name="Hardman-2002"/><ref name="Xue-2009"/><ref name="Dupertuis-2007"/>, as well as directly impacting the tumor<ref name="Gutt-2007"/><ref name="Hardman-2007"/><ref name="Kato-2002"/><ref name="Rose-1995"/><ref name="Rose-1996"/> and metastasis<ref name="Rose-1995"/><ref name="Rose-1996"/>.
