Metabolic Inflexibility: a Potential Link between Obesity and Postmenopausal Breast Cancer (2009)

Metabolic Inflexibility: a Potential Link between Obesity and Postmenopausal Breast Cancer

Obesity, postmenopausal breast cancer, energy metabolism

University of Colorado at Denver

Colorado

Erin Giles

Project Description:

Dr. Giles studied how weight gain that coincides with menopause increases risk for postmenopausal breast cancer.

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