Obesity and colon and rectal cancer risk: a meta-analysis of prospective studies.

By S. Larsson, A. Wolk. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2007

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Obesity and Cancer: The Role of Dysfunctional Adipose Tissue (2009, background): “Recent meta-analyses (10, 13, 14) have shown that an increased BMI is associated with an increased incidence of endometrial, colorectal, and postmenopausal breast cancer (Table 1).”
The incidence of co-morbidities related to obesity and overweight: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2009, result): “For example, recent meta-analyses have been reported in diabetes [115,116], cardiovascular diseases [117], coronary heart disease [118], hypertension [116], cancer [119], colorectal cancer [120-122], gallbladder cancer [123], pancreatic cancer [124], ovarian cancer [125] and asthma [126].”
Obesity and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Meta-analysis of 31 Studies with 70,000 Events (2007, background): “Previous reviews (6, 9-11) have indicated that obesity is associated with 7% to 60% greater risk of colorectal cancer compared with normal weight individuals, with some suggestion that the relationship with obesity is stronger for cancer of the colon compared with rectal cancer.”
Pathophysiology of human visceral obesity: an update. (2013, background): “A number of studies including a meta-analysis support the notion that abdominal and/or visceral obesity specifically increases the risk for colorectal cancer independent of total adiposity (245, 299, 573, 630).”