Breast cancer and obesity: in vitro interferences between adipokines and proangiogenic features and/or antitumor therapies?

Obesity is now considered as a risk factor for breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Adipokine levels are modulated in obesity, and may play a role in carcinogenesis. Moreover, obesity increases risk of cancer mortality. Here, we hypothesized that this increase could be due to a modification in ang...

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Main Authors: Virginie Dubois, Laetitia Delort, Hermine Billard, Marie-Paule Vasson, Florence Caldefie-Chezet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3598910?pdf=render