Published 4 August 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b3171
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b3171
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Obesity is risk factor in 70 000 new cancers a year in Europe, study shows
Roger Dobson, Abergavenny
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More than 70 000 new cases of cancer a year in Europe can be attributed to excess body weight, data from a new modelling study show.
The most common types of cancer attributable to obesity were endometrial, postmenopausal breast, and colorectal cancers (International Journal of Cancer doi:10.1002/ijc.24803).
The results also indicate that obesity related oesophageal adenocarcinoma is a substantial problem in the United Kingdom, accounting for 54% of all the new cases of this cancer in the 30 countries in the study.
The authors say that obesity related cancer is a greater problem for women than for men, and they warn: "In the next decade, as smoking prevalence decreases in some countries, obesity may become the biggest attributable cause of cancer in women."
To estimate the population attributable risk (defined as the proportion of cases that would not have occurred had the risk factor not been present)
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