piStarving Cancer Cells Evidence-Based Strategies to Slow Cancer Progression -- A Selection of Readings for Health Services Providersi presents an edited and annotated collection of recent medical journal publications and abstracts illustrating new approaches to treatment derived from the metabolic theory of cancer. It intends to shed an early light on a relatively new approach to our understanding of the cancer cell idiosyncratic metabolic dysfunction, and on evidence-based new treatment strategies derived from that understanding.p pThe book discusses topics such as tumor starvation by L-arginine deprivation L-canavanine depriving tumors of L-arginine in pancreatic, multiple myeloma and breast cancer glucose deprivation and intermittent fasting glutamine uptake in cancer the relation of oxygen-starved cancer cells with aspartate and reducing tolerance of tumor cells to nutrition starvation. The content is presented in a contextualized and practical way in order to facilitate the trans