Researchers Find Increasing Risk Of Obesity-Related Cancers.

reports on a study published in Lancet Public Health finding that “the risk of developing obesity-related cancer is increasing in successive generations, along with increasing rates of obesity.” Investigators “studied the incidence of 30 of the most common cancers, including 12 that are obesity related, from 1995 to 2014 in people ages 25 to 84 — more than 14.6 million cases.” The investigators “found that for six of the 12 obesity-related cancers (multiple myeloma, colorectal, uterine, gallbladder, kidney and pancreatic) the risk for disease increased in adults 25 to 49, with the magnitude of the increases steeper with younger age.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/well/obesity-tied-to-higher-cancer-rates-in-younger-people.html