Does Dietary Fat Combined With Genetic Factors Cause Prostate Cancer to Spread?

17 JAN 18

Megan Humphrey

The fat contained within the Western diet, in combination with genetic factors, can cause prostate cancer tumours to spread.

Recent research, that appears in a set of papers published in the journals Nature Genetics and Nature Communications, shed new light on the complex interplay between our genes and dietary fat, as well as on the role of this dynamic in promoting the spread, or metastasis, of prostate cancer.