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Obesity, Diabetes, and Risk of Cancer

A Review of Epidemiological Studies

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Obesity and Diabetes

Part of the book series: Contemporary Diabetes ((CDI))

Abstract

Risk of cancer is affected by a number of environmental and lifestyle factors and by an interplay between these factors and genetic susceptibility. Over the past three decades, the prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes has been increasing in both developed countries and less developed areas along with an adoption of a Westernized lifestyle (See Chapter 2). It is well recognized that obesity dramatically increases the risk of type 2 diabetes. Moreover, there is an extensive body of epidemiological evidence that excess body weight considerably increases the risk of cancers at multiple sites (1). Herein we summarize the mounting epidemiological studies linking overweight, obesity, and diabetes with cancer incidence and mortality.

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