It's generally acceptable to drink some plain black coffee (with no cream or sugar) during a fast, but check with your healthcare provider if the fast is for a medical test, procedure, or surgery.

A discovery in mice reveals why fasting enhances a type of breast cancer treatment — a hormone-signalling pathway and gene-expression changes have key roles. Stephen D. Hursting is in the Department ...

Researchers have shown for the first time that intermittent fasting increases the efficacy of anti-androgen therapy in prostate cancer, according to a paper reporting preclinical results published Aug ...

Emerging evidence suggests that fasting could play a role in the fight against cancer. However, studies to date have been relatively small and results have been mixed, leaving an unclear picture of ...

A cancer diagnosis forces us to make decisions that we never imagined ourselves making. This is especially when the regular treatments don't seem to be working. Faced with a recurrence of her cancer ...