Weight-Loss Surgery Can Prevent Cancer (AJMC Managed Markets Network)

A study conducted at the University of Virginia Cancer Center has found that bariatric surgery, eliminated precancerous uterine growths in women with obesity who previously had them. “If you look at cancers in women, about a fifth of all cancer deaths would be prevented if we had women at normal body weight in the US,” said Susan C. Modesitt, MD, of the University of Virginia Cancer Center, and the first authors on the study. “When you’re looking at obesity-related cancers, the biggest one is endometrial cancer, but also colon cancer, breast cancer, renal cancer and gall bladder cancer. We think about 40 [percent] to 50 percent of all endometrial cancer, which is in the lining of the uterus, is caused by obesity.”
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