US cancers attributed to obesity
Obesity seems to indirectly cause many forms of cancer.
The Harvard School of Public Health states that 100,000 cancer cases per year can be attributed to obesity, in the United States alone.
The distribution by type of cancer is the following :
The Harvard School of Public Health states that 100,000 cancer cases per year can be attributed to obesity, in the United States alone.
The distribution by type of cancer is the following :
- Breast cancer : 11 %
- Colon cancer : 14 %
- Endometrial cancer : 49 %
- Esophageal cancer : 39 %
- Kidney cancer : 31 %
- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma : 20 %
- Pancreatic cancer : 14 %
posted by Jean-Francois Poirier at
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