Facing Adiposity in personalizing Treatment of Breast Cancer Patients KU Leuven
One out of 8 women develops breast cancer (BC) in her lifetime and 1 out of 2 is overweight or obese in industrialized countries. While heavier women have an increased risk of developing BC and heavier BC patients present with worse disease characteristics, BC is so far still treated regardless of patient adiposity because of the limited knowledge accumulated so far.
I hypothesize that increased adiposity provides a different ...