Background: Excess body weight has been consistently associated with colorectal, breast,
endometrial, esophageal, gall bladder, pancreatic and kidney cancers. The objective of this …

Methods: We estimated PAFs using relative risk (RR) estimates from the World Cancer
Research Fund International Continuous Update Project, BMI-based estimates of …

The increasing prevalence of obesity among Canadians has important implications for
newly diagnosed cases of cancer given that excess body weight and abdominal adiposity …

The prevalence of excess body weight and the associated cancer burden have been rising
over the past several decades globally. Between 1975 and 2016, the prevalence of excess …

Background: Overweight and obesity are known risk factors for chronic diseases including
cancers. In this study, we evaluated the age standardized incidence rates (ASR) and …

Importance Excess body weight (EBW) is an established cause of cancer. Despite variations
in the prevalence of EBW among US states, there is little information on the EBW-related …

Background: Reaching the American Cancer Society challenge goal for the nation to reduce
cancer incidence by 25% by 2015 will be influenced in part by the epidemic of obesity. The …

Importance Excess weight is associated with increased cancer risk, but the risk may have
been underestimated, as previous studies did not consider cumulative lifetime exposure …

The authors conducted a population-based, case-control study of 21,022 incident cases of
19 types of cancer and 5,039 controls aged 20–76 years during 1994–1997 to examine the …

We investigated the relation of overweight and obesity with cancer in a population-based
cohort of more than 145 000 Austrian adults over an average of 9.9 years. Incident cancers …