January 18, 2024 — Cancer is rising in young persons and it appears that obesity is playing a role. Of course, this is not to say that obesity tells the whole story. Cancer prevalence patterns present a complex puzzle – just as obesity prevalence does. A Continuing Shift Toward Younger Persons Yesterday in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, […]
June 4, 2022 — “The best possible evidence on the value of intentional weight loss to reduce cancer risk and mortality.” This is how the Cleveland Clinic’s Steven Nissen describes the release of a new study in JAMA yesterday. These observations come from a matched cohort study of 30,318 persons by Ali Aminian and colleagues. They found a 48 […]
August 26, 2020 — Can obesity care and prevention lead to less death, cancer, and other complications of obesity? This question has been a hard one to answer. For one thing, we’re not too good at prevention. Obesity rates keep going up, not down. However, on the plus side, we have pretty good data on preventing death, cancer, and […]
February 9, 2020 — If you want an example of extremely unhelpful health reporting, look no further than two reports this week on obesity, surgery, and colorectal cancer. Two different studies. Precisely opposite findings on a difficult subject. Very little perspective. Taken at face value, one can only conclude that surgery might add to the risk of colorectal cancer […]
