Half-million cancers worldwide linked to obesity

[Kaido]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/half-million-cancers-worldwide-linked-to-obesity-1.2850571

Excess body weight caused about 481,000 new cancer cases in 2012, according to a new study by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, an arm of the World Health Organization.

 

[Raghu]

The obesity(/diabetes)-cancer connection is well known. Heres a video from a conference on this topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EffpuKqWWF8

The Warburg effect is an interesting read.

 

[disappoint]

There are too many thin cancer patients, and even children, to say obesity alone is a cause for cancer.

 

[Kaido]

There are too many thin cancer patients, and even children, to say obesity alone is a cause for cancer.

It's a very small percentage:

That works out to about 3.6 per cent of all cancers worldwide

So it's a risk factor. Interesting that being overweight can give you cancer...never crossed my mind that there would be a link. But regarding thin cancer patients, I know a lot of cancer patients IRL and all of them are reasonably skinny :hmm: