This narrative review highlights current evidence linking greater body fatness to risk of
various cancers, with focus on evidence from recent large cohort studies and pooled …

Higher body fatness is not only associated with a higher risk of hypertension, type 2
diabetes, and coronary heart disease but also with certain types of cancer. The scope of this …

Excess body adiposity, commonly expressed as body mass index (BMI), is a risk factor for
many common adult cancers. Over the past decade, epidemiological data have shown that …

Obesity is associated with several types of cancer and fat distribution, which differs
dramatically between sexes, has been suggested to be an independent risk factor. However …

Carrying excess body fat is a leading cause of cancer. Epidemiologic evidence gives strong
clues about the mechanisms that link excess adiposity to risk for several cancer sites. For …

Obesity results from a chronic excessive accumulation of adipose tissue due to a long-term
imbalance between energy intake and expenditure. Available epidemiological and clinical …

Obesity and upper-body fat distribution are independent, cardiometabolic risk factors but
whether they also display comparable associations with cancer risk is unknown. We …

Continuously rising trends in obesity-related malignancies render this disease spectrum a
public health priority. Worldwide, the burden of cancer attributable to obesity, expressed as …

BACKGROUND Mounting evidence, particularly from prospective epidemiologic studies but
with additional support from animal models and mechanistic studies, supported conclusions …

Background Despite the established association between obesity and cancer risk, it remains
unclear whether visceral obesity is causally related to cancer risk and whether it is more pro …