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"This case report gives hope that the KD might improve clinical outcomes for some patients with NSCLC. The tumor shrinkage, survival time, spectacular improveme
by blakesterz 3y ago
"This case report gives hope that the KD might improve clinical outcomes for some patients with NSCLC. The tumor shrinkage, survival time, spectacular improvement in physical condition, and the restoration of daily attitudes are encouraging for further application of this therapeutic approach to larger numbers of patients."
Under "Case presentation" they call out that the patient is right handed... "A 54-year-old right-handed man presented with headache,"... is that a common thing to pay attention to in the type of research? I can see why they note he's a smoker, but seeing right-handed surprised me.
- aarong11 3y agoI mean depending on which side of the brain the tumour is, it could be relevant. Don't quote me on this (I'm not a doctor) but the right hemisphere controls the left side of the body (including left hand) and the left controls the right.
- lukeinator42 3y agoHandedness is important in neuroscience as there are functional asymmetries for things such as language. Pretty much all right-handed brains have language lateralized to the left side, whereas around 70% of left-handers also have language lateralized to the left side. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4219560/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4219560/ So if a person is left-handed it's unknown if the lateralization of various functions in their brain is the same as a right-hander or if things are mapped in strange places. Left-handers also have higher rates of schizophrenia and other disorders. I say this as a left-hander who is doing his PhD in neuroscience, haha.