Brown fat does not cause cachexia in cancer patients: A large retrospective longitudinal FDG-PET/CT cohort study.

PLoS One · 2020 · PMC7544086 · PMID 33031379

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Nevertheless, if a positive trend between tumor activity and BAT had been observed in this longitudinal dataset, a prospective trial with a series of additional low dose FDG scans with stimulated BAT (cold exposure and β 3 -agonists) would have been a reasonable next step to shed further insights into the relation between cancer and BAT activity.

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