Scientists discover how fat tissue drives the spread of triple-negative breast cancer

Scientists discover how fat tissue drives the spread of triple-negative breast cancer

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is aggressive and hard to treat. But the role of fat tissue in how the cancer spreads may help point toward new understanding and treatments, according to a new paper from scientists at the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) and colleagues at Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.