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From left: Dr. Matan Fischer, endocrinologist and deputy director of internal medicine; Prof. Gil Leibowitz, director of the Diabetes Unit; and endocrinologist Prof. Avivit Cahn. The Hadassah oncologists and endocrinologists tried something radical that led to a scientific breakthrough in cancer treatment. HADASSAH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER.

A 57-year-old advanced lung-cancer patient was brought to Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, unconscious from dangerously low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) due to a rare complication in which the tumor secretes a protein that diverts sugar into the muscle.

The doctors tried to raise his blood-sugar levels with conventional treatments but nothing helped.