Lipid uptake can occur via multiple routes, including the use of specialized transporters such as CD36 fatty acid translocase or the fatty acid transport proteins (FATPs of the SLC27 family of solute carriers), or receptor-mediated endocytosis of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) particles via the LDL receptor (LDLR), all of which are highly expressed in various types of cancer (Figure 6a) [68]. This evidence concerns the gene LDLR and cancer.