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FRIDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- The more weight you carry on your
body, the greater your odds of developing cancer, British researchers
report.

This is true not only of fairly common cancers such as colon and
breast, but also of lesser known varieties, including gallbladder.
Moreover, the degree of risk differs between men and women and among
different ethnic groups, report the authors of a comprehensive new
paper appearing in this week's issue of The Lancet.

"This is a profoundly important issue. Obviously, the obesity epidemic
is a huge problem itself, and the relationship to cancer is only one
of the many adverse health effects of being overweight and obese,"
said Dr. Michael Thun, head of epidemiological research at the
American Cancer Society. "The evidence has been accumulating now for
over 10 years. . . This study tries to provide a quantitative measure
of how much the relative risk goes up with each increment, basically
jumping from one BMI [body-mass index] category to another."

Although extra fat has already been identified by research as a risk
factor for several different types of cancer, Thun said, "the problem
of obesity is so large and so difficult to solve that there's a very
sound reason for ongoing studies of things that have become
increasingly well-known, just because it helps the momentum in
stimulating approaches that will actually help people maintain a
healthy weight."

Last year, a report issued by the American Institute of Cancer
Research and the U.K.-based World Cancer Research Fund concluded that
body fat is associated with an increased risk for several different
types of cancer including esophageal adenocarcinoma, as well as
cancers of the pancreas, colon and rectum, breast (postmenopausal),
endometrium and kidney.

Although that report was one of the most comprehensive to date, it did
leave some questions unanswered. For instance, are there associations
between less common cancers and body weight, and do the associations
differ between the sexes and people of different ethnic backgrounds?

The issue is a pressing one, with about two-thirds of adult men and
women in the United States overweight or obese. That number is only
expected to increase as people continue to eat more and exercise less.

This study, from scientists at the University of Manchester, analyzed
141 articles involving 282,137 cancer cases and 20 different types of
malignancies to determine the cancer risk associated with a 5 kilogram-
per-meter-squared increase in BMI, roughly the increase that would
bump a person from middle-normal weight into overweight.

In men, such an increase in BMI raised the risk of esophageal
adenocarcinoma by 52 percent, thyroid cancer by 33 percent, and colon
and kidney cancer by 24 percent each.

In women, the same increase in BMI increased the risk of endometrial
and gallbladder cancer by 59 percent each, esophageal adenocarcinoma
by 51 percent, and kidney cancer by 34 percent.

In men, there were weaker associations between increased BMI and
rectal cancer and melanoma. In women, there were weaker associations
between increased BMI and postmenopausal breast, pancreatic, thyroid
and colon cancers.

In both genders, there were associations between increased BMI and
leukemia, multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

For colon cancer, the associations were stronger in men than in women
(24 percent vs. 9 percent).

There were stronger associations in Asia-Pacific populations between
greater BMI and both premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancers.

Although the main message is still to maintain a healthy weight, this
research might indicate earlier screening for certain cancers, said
Dr. Greg Cooper, interim chief of the gastroenterology division at
Ireland Cancer Center of University Hospitals and Case Comprehensive
Cancer Center in Cleveland. "If someone is obese, then lower the
threshold for screening," he said. "One of the cancers they identified
is esophageal adenocarcinoma, which is not as common as colon cancer,
but it is increasing in incidence. It is thought to be related to
reflux, so as a gastroenterologist, if I have a patient who has reflux
and is obese, I might lower the threshold for doing an endoscopy. For
other cancers like colon cancer, those guidelines are pretty well-
established, and this probably wouldn't change practice."

Experts aren't sure why extra fat can lead to malignancies, but
changes in the circulating levels of various hormones (insulin,
insulin-like growth factors and sex steroids) might explain the link.

Here's more bad news as the world heads for a smoke-free future: An
accompanying commentary from Swedish researchers notes that as people
quit smoking (the biggest cause of cancer in developed countries),
weight gain may become the main lifestyle factor contributing to new
cancers.

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