Body Fatness and Cancer — Viewpoint of the IARC Working Group

By B. Lauby-Secretan, C. Scoccianti, D. Loomis, Y. Grosse, Franca Bianchini, K. Straif. New England Journal of Medicine, 2016

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The International Agency for Research on Cancer convened a workshop on the relationship between body fatness and cancer, from which an IARC handbook on the topic will appear. An executive summary of the evidence is presented.

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