Preventing metastasis by stopping cancer cells from making fat

In brief  (18 seconds of reading):

• Olivier Feron, a UCLouvain researcher, studies how cancer spreads through the body via metastasis
• His major discovery was that cancer cells multiply by using lipids as food. His latest discovery, published in the scientific , is that lipid storage promotes cancer invasiveness
• A new drug currently being tested to treat obesity may also help fight metastasis

Olivier Feron, a researcher at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research, seeks to understand how metastases form from a tumour. ...

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