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- Title
Sustained weight loss may reduce cancer risk.
- Authors
Fillon, Mike
- Abstract
Although it is widely accepted that obesity is a cancer risk factor, there has been little research showing that losing weight and maintaining that loss reduce the risk of developing and possibly dying of certain cancers. Also, 21 patients in the bariatric surgery group (0.41%) and 205 patients in the control group (0.81%) died of cancer-related causes; these rates corresponded to 0.6 and 1.2 cancer-related deaths, respectively, per 1000 person-years of follow-up. Bariatric surgery patients had a 32% lower incidence of obesity-associated cancer and a 48% lower risk of death from cancer than patients in a nonsurgical control group.
- Subjects
OBESITY complications; TUMOR prevention; OBESITY; RELATIVE medical risk; WEIGHT loss
- Publication
CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022, Vol 72, Issue 6, p505
- ISSN
0007-9235
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3322/caac.21761