Cancer cells become more aggressive from fat storage
Thursday, June 2, 2016 - 17:50
in Health & Medicine
The cell images represent cancer cells where the cell nuclei are depicted in light blue and the fat droplets in red. It has been established that not all cancer cells are equally aggressive - most can be neutralised with radiation and chemotherapy. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now discovered that some cancer cells can accumulate fat droplets, which appear to make them more aggressive and increase their ability to spread.