Fat rats show breast cancer may be more aggressive in patients with obesity

10 Aug 2017


A study published in Hormones & Cancer shows that obese rats have more sensitive androgen receptors, which magnifies growth signals from testosterone and promotes tumour growth without oestrogen.

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