The immune system is strongly linked to the maintenance of healthy bone. Inflammatory
cytokines, specifically, are crucial to skeletal homeostasis and any dysregulation can result …

Background Excess bodyweight, expressed as increased body-mass index (BMI), is
associated with the risk of some common adult cancers. We did a systematic review and …

Objective: We evaluated the relation between obesity and the risks for various forms of
cancer. Methods: In a population-based cohort of 28,129 hospital patients (8165 men …

Multiple myeloma, a neoplasm of plasma cells, accounts for∼∼ 15% of
lymphatohematopoietic cancers (LHC) and 2% of all cancers in the US. Incidence rates …

Excess body weight has been identified as a risk factor for various cancer types. Since the
publication of two meta-analyses indicating that body mass index (BMI) is positively …

Background: Obesity has been linked to excess risk for many cancers, but the evidence
remains tenuous for some types. Although the prevalence of obesity varies by race, few …

The aggregate of epidemiological studies indicates a significantly elevated risk for cancer in
people with a high body mass index (BMI); a “dose–response” effect exists with increasing …

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 …

For a century, since the pioneering work of Otto Warburg, the interwoven relationship
between metabolism and cancer has been appreciated. More recently, with obesity rates …

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a malignant hematological disease. The disease is characterized
by the clonal proliferation of malignant plasma cells in the bone marrow. MM accounts for …