Ohio State Charts a Functional Path to Target Cancer

Food, nutrition, and health are intricately linked, and as food becomes more abundant, so does obesity, which is expected to surpass tobacco use as the leading preventable cause of cancer. In the United States alone, 1.7 million people are diagnosed with cancer each year, and 600,000 of them die from it. Yet some cancer research continues to involve conventional methods and segregated investigative techniques to identify a single drug or compound that can cure or effectively manage cancer. Ohio …