A PET scan is not specific for cancer. It finds cells with high metabolism (in the crudest of terms sugar burn) but not cancer. There are lots of things that cause this that have nothing to do with cancer. Infection, inflammation, cell repair from trauma just to name a few that are not caner. Every cell needs blood sugars to exist. All of our cells are burning it all the time. If you do not eat it your body will covert other things to sugars as it is programmed to do everyday. You cannot stop eating sugar and change anything. Your body will just make its own. Please do a search for sugars in this board - this has be discussed and dissected ad nausem, several times. People who believe this do not have a basic understanding of cell biology nor blood sugars.
Cells that are in a state of repair will throw the SUV of a PET scan high and light you up like a xmas tree. Is this cancer? Is it a bad thing? No. Do our surgeries, radiation treatments etc. cause cellular damage that in itself lights up a PET? Yes, if the scan is soon enough after the treatments to have the body's repair process still in effect. It is finding what a PET scan does, high metabolism. Repair. Inflammation. Does cancer also produce elevated SUV's? Yup. Can a PET scan tell the difference between the two? No. But at the end of the day, you are not going to impact any cancer via sugar consumption. That would be assuming that the sugar that you eat stays as sugar. It would also assume that anything else that you eat (carbs, protein, fats, etc.) could/would not be converted by your normal body functions to sugar. Both are wrong assumptions.
gnoled - I find this quote of your particularly distasteful and makes an assumption about doctors that is just not true. "Why would they recommend we continue to ingest sugar when we are trying to get rid of the cancer? Here is question you can ask your Dr. Is a patient cured, a customer lost? They do NOT like to be reminded of that." Your take is that the majority of doctors want to keep us sick for financial gain. Keep this paranoid nonsense off the boards. It helps no one, and is not true of the majority of doctors who have saved many of our lives here on the board, who work for straight salary at CCC's all around the US, are not paid per patient but by the year, regardless if they see one patient, or the usual number which is more than they can handle. It would make an assumption that as a group of tens of thousands of individual practitioners, they conspire as a group to keep us sick for the shear purpose of milking every last cent out of us. Conspiracy theories can be posted on some other board. Not here.
