New study: Aggressive breast cancer grows faster in obese environment

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/ulcc-nsa033117.php

Public Release: 31-Mar-2017
New study: Aggressive breast cancer grows faster in obese environment
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

It's not just what's inside breast cancer cells that matters. It's also the environment surrounding cancer cells that drives the disease, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. In an abstract that will be presented April 3 at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2017, researchers will report their preliminary findings that cancer cells grew faster when they were transplanted into fatty, obese tissue. They believe the study can help explain the obesity cancer link, providing evidence that elements of the fatty tissue surrounding cancer cells may help the cancer to grow.

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