These kind of articles need to be nuanced or we’ll end up with conclusions such as “fasting cures cancer”.

The role of cellular autophagy is not that clear: it can promote mammary and pancreatic cancerous cells survival but on the other hand its inhibition promotes the development of lymphoma for instance.

Apoptosis can likely have a symmetrical role.

It isn’t clear neither that this behaviour is consistent across all development stages of given cancers.