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Obesity Linked to Half a Million Cancer Cases Worldwide
In 2012, about half a million of cases of cancer around the world were attributed to excess body weight, which extrapolates to 3.6% of all new adult patients.
The weight-related cancer burden was highest in developed countries; 63.8% of these obesity-related cancers occurred in North America and Europe.
The figures come from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IACR), and were published online November 25 in the Lancet Oncology.
The IACR team, led by Melinda Arnold, PhD, points out that approximately one-quarter of these weight-related cancers — or 118,000 cases — could have been avoided if the mean body mass index (BMI) of the global population had remained the same as it was in 1982.
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