Overweight as an avoidable cause of cancer in Europe

By A. Bergström, P. Pisani, V. Tenet, A. Wolk, H. Adami. International Journal of Cancer, 2001

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Subfields: Epidemiology, Oncology

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In Epidemiology

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4. J. Dixon
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Citations in the corpus

• The incidence of co-morbidities related to obesity and overweight: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2009, background): “We have identified a number of recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses on type II diabetes [7], cardiovascular diseases [8,9], cancer [10], breast cancer [11,12], esophageal or cardia adenocarcinoma [13], pancreatic cancer [14] and prostate cancer [15].”
• Diet, nutrition and the prevention of cancer (2004, background): “…and physical activity estimated that in countries with high rates of cancers related to overweight, excess body weight (BMI over 25 kg/m 2 ) accounts for approximately 39% of endometrial, 25% of kidney, 11% of colon, 9% of postmenopausal breast cancer and 5% of total cancer incidence 82,101 .”
• Obesity and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review of Prospective Studies (2013, background): “Previous reviews have indicated that obesity is associated with 7% to 60% greater risk of CRC compared with normal weight individuals [3,57].”
• American Cancer Society guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention (2002, background): “BMI is calculated as body weight in kilograms (kg) divided by height in meters, squared (m(2)).(84) Exact cutoffs for a healthy BMI are somewhat arbitrary, but for most adults, experts consider a BMI within the range of 18.”
• Cancer epidemiology in the last century and the next decade (2001, background): “The evidence on weight is strongest for post-menopausal breast cancer and cancers of the endometrium, gall-bladder and kidney, but several other sites contribute to the overall cancer ris”
• Obesity in older adults: technical review and position statement of the American Society for Nutrition and NAASO, The Obesity Society. (2005, neutral): “Obesity is associated with an increased risk of several types of cancer that occur more commonly in older than in young adults, including breast, colon, gallbladder, pancreas, renal, bladder, uterine, cervical, and prostate cancers (83, 84).”
• The changing global patterns of female breast cancer incidence and mortality (2004, background): “The effect of large weight gains after the age of 18 has been shown to be a strong risk factor for breast cancer in postmenopausal women [65], with risk increasing by 2% per unit body mass index [66].”
• Obesity and adverse breast cancer risk and outcome: mechanistic insights and strategies for intervention (2017, background): “Obese women who received reduced chemotherapy doses had worse survival.86 The American Society of Clinical Oncology guidelines recommend using actual body weight when calculating chemotherapy dosing regardless of BMI.87”