Eli5: Since Mitochondria play an important role in cancer through macromolecular synthesis and energy production, why are we not targeting those energy path ways to exhaust cancer?

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Eli5: Since Mitochondria play an important role in cancer through macromolecular synthesis and energy production, why are we not targeting those energy path ways to exhaust cancer?

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Because the main objective of curing cancer is for the patient to survive.

All of our cancer treatments have the same main problem. They are killing the cancer together with the patient.

Because the things that kill cancer also kill the rest of the cells. Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. Not just cancer cell.

There is a reason why people feel like shit after chemotherapy. It’s literally killing them. The reason why we do it anyway is that it’s killing the cancer faster.