Our body fat may turn out to be a secret weapon in our everlasting fight against cancer. A new study released this week suggests that fat cells can be engineered into a treatment that literally ...

Researchers have discovered that different dietary fats may have dramatically different effects on pancreatic cancer, with ...

How fat is distributed in people's bodies could make a difference to their risk of certain cancers, according to new research led by the University of Bristol. The study is published in JNCI: Journal ...

Editor's note: The study described below has now been published in the journal Nature Biotechnology. Live Science covered it as a preprint in 2023. Fat sucked out of the body and tweaked with the gene ...

Obesity has long been established as a risk factor for cancer, particularly when it’s stored in certain areas of the body. Now, new research suggests that a larger waist circumference is a bigger risk ...

Being overweight or obese has long been linked to a greater risk of developing or dying from breast cancer. New research suggests a reason: Certain breast cancer tumors may feed on neighboring fat ...

The global rise in obesity is staggering. Obesity has doubled in over 70 nations within a span of a mere four decades. By the year 2035, experts predict four billion individuals will be affected by it ...

Stephen J. Freedland, MD Studies provide conflicting results on the influence of dietary fat, but caloric intake may be the key, researcher says. A number of studies published in the past few years ...