Posts Tagged ‘obesity treatment benefits’

OW2024: The Expanding Scope of GLP-1 Therapy Benefits

November 2, 2024 — As we travel to San Antonio for ObesityWeek 2024 (OW2024) one of the principal threads we want to explore is the expanding scope of GLP-1 therapy benefits. The narrative is a moving target. We won’t have the abstracts in hand for another day. But news this week makes it clear that we have barely gotten […]

Treating Obesity as a Risk Reduction Strategy for Cancer

August 13, 2024 — For the second time in the past few months, a signal from the surveillance of GLP-1 agonists is surfacing to suggest that these drugs may offer a risk reduction strategy for cancer. Earlier, the signal came from a study of persons receiving treatment for diabetes. The present study, presented at the recent annual meeting for […]

More Evidence That Metabolic Surgery Lowers Cancer Risk

August 24, 2023 — Let’s start with a few simple facts. Obesity causes cancer. Not every kind of cancer, but for at least a dozen types of cancer, obesity can clearly play a causal role. Scientists attribute between four and eight percent of all cancers to obesity. It is also true that, for now, the most effective single treatment […]