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

Anton S. Becker, Caroline Zellweger, Sara Bacanovic, Sabine Franckenberg, Hannes W. Nagel, Lukas Frick, Khoschy Schawkat, Matthias Eberhard, Christian Blüthgen, Jörk Volbracht,

PLoS ONE · 2020 · 31 citations · 36 references

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Our data did not confirm the hypothesis that BAT plays a major role in cancer-mediated weight loss. Temperature changes are the main driver of incidental BAT activity on FDG-PET scans.

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