Conditions & Recovery · NCI Cancer Currents Blog · March 27, 2025

Experimental Treatment Uses Engineered Fat Cells to “Starve” Tumors

Researchers have developed a form of cancer treatment that uses fat cells engineered to aggressively consume nutrients like glucose. When implanted in mice, the engineered cells appeared to outcompete tumors for nutrients, shrinking tumors.

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