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AICR champions research that increases understanding of the relationship between nutrition, lifestyle, and cancer.
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In her first grant, Dr. Etkind showed that a high fat diet causes increased gene expression and affects the dormancy period of tumor expression in mice. Dr. Etkind observed the mechanism by which this occurs and attempted to answer new questions: 1) at what percentage fat intake does gene expression begin; and 2) is there a specific time in life when fat consumption accelerates breast cancer risk.
