Obesity now rivals smoking as one of the leading preventable causes of cancer. Obesity-associated neutrophilia is now shown to enhance breast cancer metastasis and to be reversible through dietary modification and weight loss.
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Sceneay, J., McAllister, S. The skinny on obesity and cancer. Nat Cell Biol 19, 887–888 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb3583
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