More evidence linking obesity to liver cancer
Health 24, October 17, 2016
Having a large waistline, a high body mass index (BMI) and type 2 diabetes, may raise your risk for liver cancer, a new study suggests.
“We found that each of these three factors was associated, robustly, with liver cancer risk,” said study co-author Peter Campbell. He’s strategic director of digestive system cancer research at the American Cancer Society.
Liver cancer rates have roughly tripled in the United States since the mid-1970s, “and the prognosis for patients diagnosed with this type of cancer is especially grim,” Campbell said.
He and his colleagues examined data on 1.57 million adults from 14 US studies to look for an association between obesity and type 2 diabetes and liver cancer. None of the participants had cancer when the study began.