Obesity and Cancer

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pischon, Tobias (Editor), Nimptsch, Katharina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Recent Results in Cancer Research, 208
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Oncology.; Epidemiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Cancer Research.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the relationship between obesity and cancer. It opens with a global perspective on obesity and cancer incidence, followed by in-depth discussions of those cancers for which we have sufficient evidence of a causal relationship with obesity....

Table of Contents:

• Obesity and risk of cancer: a global perspective
• Colorectal cancer
• Breast cancer
• Esophageal cancer
• Kidney cancer
• Pancreatic cancer
• Endometrial cancer
• Prostate cancer
• Ovarian cancer
• Liver cancer
• Obesity biomarkers, metabolism and risk of cancer from an epidemiological perspective
• Biological mechanisms for the effect of obesity on cancer risk: experimental evidence
• Obesity as an avoidable cause of cancer.