Can you eat to beat cancer? Of course not!

Vegan diet gurus The Happy Pear claimed last week that eating mushrooms could prevent breast cancer – but doctors blasted back, saying it simply wasn't true. So can you eat to beat cancer, or it is all simply wishful thinking, or worse a cynical bid to sell diet books? The Medical Minefield team speak to breast surgeon and two-time cancer survivor, Liz O'Riordan; a naturopath and Head of Education at the College of Naturopathic Medicine Bobby Qureshi; and journalist Ruth Sunderland, whose husband is a survivor of throat cancer, about the role food has in treating and recovery from illness.

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