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Correspondence to Ulrike Gonder.

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The author has received speaker’s honoraria from Swiss Medical Food, a company that developed and markets ketogenic meals as a medical food, and has written books about ketogenic diets.

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Gonder, U. Article on ketogenic dietary regimes for cancer highly misleading. Med Oncol 34, 109 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12032-017-0971-9

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