Mannose, which can be bought in health food shops and is sometimes used to treat urinary tract infections, is thought to interfere with the ability of tumours to use glucose to grow. Scientists ...

Every cell in our bodies feeds on the sugar glucose. Tumour cells consume even more. The team, led by Prof Kevin Ryan of Glasgow University, fed mice with tumours another sugar called mannose.

Medically reviewed by Lindsay Cook, PharmD D-mannose is a simple sugar that occurs naturally in the human body and is found ...

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