Not quite the same thing, but patients who lose weight as a symptom of lung cancer are more prone to toxicity from treatment and have shorter survival times ove

Not quite the same thing, but patients who lose weight as a symptom of lung cancer are more prone to toxicity from treatment and have shorter survival times overall. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2409471/\ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2409471/\ And to be clear, the authors of the OP study absolutely do propose a mechanism by which the time window and reprogramming of circadian rhythms in tumor cells lead to tumor suppression. It's right there in the 'results' summary and elaborated in much greater detail in 'discussion' section: >After TRF intervention, only timeless (TIM) gene among five lung cancer-associated clock genes was found to consistently align rhythm of tumor cells to that of tumor tissues. Further, we demonstrated that the anti-tumor effect upon TRF was partially mediated by the rhythmic downregulation of the TIM and the subsequent activation of autophagy. Combining TRF with TIM inhibition further enhanced the anti-tumor effect, comparable to treatment efficacy of chemotherapy in xenograft model.