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Izabela Podgorski, Ph.D., researcher at Karmanos Cancer Institute receives RO1 grant to continue research on metastatic prostate cancer – PRNewswire
/PRNewswire/ — Izabela Podgorski, Ph.D., co-leader of the Prostate Cancer Research Team at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and associate professor…
Her new study hypothesizes that tumor cell and bone marrow adipocyte interactions enhance prostate cancer metastatic progression, while simultaneously reducing the tumor cells’ response to current treatments.”Bone by itself is a very harsh microenvironment that is difficult to treat,” she said. “For a long time, people thought bone marrow fat cells were just energy storage units. We knew they were abundant in adult bones and that their numbers prematurely increased with obesity and metabolic dis…
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