Adipose Tissue and Cancer

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kolonin, Mikhail G. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Oncology.; Lipids.; Cytology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Lipidology.; Cell Biology.
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The pathophysiology underlying the relationship between obesity and cancer is complex and incompletely understood. Progression of certain cancers has been shown to accelerate in obese patients irrespective of their lifestyle and diet. Because obesity is manifested by overgrowth of white adipose tiss...

Table of Contents:

• Preface: Obesity, Adipose Tissue and Cancer Progression
• Metabolic Perturbations Associated with Adipose Tissue Dysfunction and the Obesity-Cancer Link
• Increased Adiposity and Colorectal Cancer
• Adiposity and Diabetes in Breast and Prostate Cancer
• Increased Adipocity and Endometrial Cancer Risk
• Adipokines: Soluble Factors from Adipose Tissue Implicated in Cancer
• Animal Models to Study the Interplay between Cancer and Obesity
• Unraveling the local influence of tumor-surrounding adipose tissue on tumor progression: cellular and molecular actors involved
• Trafficking of Cells from Adipose Tissue to Tumor Microenvironment
• The Impact of Obesity Intervention on Cancer: Clinical Perspectives
• Index.