Abstract

Most of the mice in Stephen Hursting’s laboratory at the University of Texas in Austin have cancer. However, among mice with identical genetics and the same tumor types, their cancers vary drastically; some have tumors bulging out of their sides, and others look healthy. The differences between the mice: their diets and the resulting amount of fat in their bodies. Hursting, a nutritional scientist, can quickly predict which mice have the most aggressive, fastest growing cancer by answering a simple question: Which mice are obese?

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