Acs Research - Theorylab

Katherine Cook, an assistant professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine, has dedicated her career to exploring the association between obesity and breast cancer risk and outcomes. Here, she describes work showing that what moms eat can have a long-term impact on the health of daughters that can increase their breast cancer risk. She also talks about how the timing of weight gain can impact breast cancer risk, how obesity is associated with poorer response to chemotherapy, and how weight loss can lower breast cancer risk. And she described recent work showing that breast-specific microbiome populations are significantly affected by diet.