If you’re diagnosed with breast cancer, what should you eat to ensure the best prognosis?
In APL Bioengineering, by AIP Publishing, a multidisciplinary team of researchers at Princeton University conducted a study to find out.
“We took the approach of building identical engineered tumors and culturing them in conditions that mimic the blood composition of patients under different dietary states,” author Celeste M. Nelson said. “We were hoping to identify dietary conditions that would slow tumor growth. Instead, we found one dietary condition – a high-fat diet – that sped up tumor growth.”
The researchers engineered a tumor model using a human plasmalike medium to re-create a more realistic microenvironment around tumors. This allowed them to replicate the biochemical effects of nutrients from food. As…