Abstract:Background: Approximately 40% of American women suffer from obesity, and about 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime. The concurrence of these trends has the potential to be particularly detrimental, as obesity confers a worse prognosis for both pre- and postmenopausal breast cancer patients. While the precise mechanisms by which obesity impacts breast cancer prognosis remain to be discovered, evidence suggests that obesity upregulates components of cancer-associated fibroblast … Show more
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