Hazy Cancer–Sugar Association Becomes Clearer

For those with a tendency toward the conspiratorial, this is not a takedown about how “Big Sugar” is poisoning the world and increasing cancer rates. Instead, new evidence from a collaborative team of Belgian researchers at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), the University of Brussels (VUB), and the Vlaams Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) has clarified how the Warburg effect—a phenomenon in which cancer cells rapidly break down sugars—stimulates tumor growth. This dis