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A mouse model of metastasis-induced breast cancer cachexia with non-cachectic controls bearing isogenic primary tumors

Background Patients with advanced cancer frequently develop cachexia, an involuntary weight-loss condition that correlates strongly with metastatic burden. Despite this clinical association, metastasis is rarely considered in preclinical research of cancer cachexia, which is in part due to the lack of rigorously established animal models to investigate metastasis-associated cancer cachexia.…

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