Preventing metastasis by stopping cancer cells from making fat (IMAGE)

Université catholique de Louvain

Preventing metastasis by stopping cancer cells from making fat

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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 journal Nature Communications, is that lipid storage promotes cancer invasiveness. A new drug currently being tested to treat obesity may also help fight metastasis.

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