I believe that in this case the term starve might actually be accurate: "... the inability of ketone bodies metabolization due to various deficiencies in mitoc

I believe that in this case the term starve might actually be accurate: "... the inability of ketone bodies metabolization due to various deficiencies in mitochondrial enzymes is the major metabolic changes discovered in malignant cells" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5450454/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5450454/