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Kidney Cancer surgeon/scientist @sloan_kettering. Tweets my own
Dec 23, 2019 12 tweets 6 min read
Super excited about our latest work on understanding how BMI impacts tumor outcomes and treatment response in #kidneycancer thelancet.com/journals/lanon….
This work was led by the awesome @ASanchez_UroOnc with generous grant support from @ConquerCancerFd and @sloan_kettering. A little background on our study. In 2013 in this study ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24285872 We initially found that higher BMI patients with localized ccRCC had better cancer specific outcomes. We linked this to unique transcriptomic profile of these tumors, including lower levels of FASN. Image