Appetite for Life: Nutrition and Other Factors to Combat Cancer Survey
Appetite for Life: Nutrition and Other Factors to Combat Cancer
Breaking the Obesity-Cancer Link
It was in graduate school at UNC-Chapel Hill that Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) Director Stephen Hursting first got interested in cancer research. After completing his MPH and working for two years as a research associate at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer...
Student Success at the NRI: Alleigh Wiggs, Breast Cancer Researcher and Advocate
Congratulations to Alleigh Wiggs, a student researcher with the Sumner Lab, whose research on the effects of diet and exercise on endogenous estrogens and subsequent breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women was recently published in Frontiers in Endocrinology....
Hursting moves into 16th year of Breast Cancer Research Foundation grant
September 17, 2019 – “Our work has evolved from asking Is obesity increasing cancer risk? and What are the mechanisms linking obesity and cancer?” he says. “We have largely answered the first question and are still working on the second, but our focus really has turned to What are we going to do about it?”