Plenty of cancers have been linked to very specific combinations mutations in non-mitochrondrial DNA, IIRC p53 mutations alone are prevalent in ~50% of cancer c

Plenty of cancers have been linked to very specific combinations mutations in non-mitochrondrial DNA, IIRC p53 mutations alone are prevalent in ~50% of cancer cases. About the not eating thing: maybe you can starve the tumor, but who starves first?