Cancer: Obesity

Obesity – an increase in BMI of 5 kg/m2 increases the risk by relative (x%) for the following cancers:men

  • Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus (+ 52%).
  • Thyroid carcinoma (+ 33 %)
  • Colon carcinoma (+ 24 %)
  • Renal cell carcinoma (+ 24 %)
  • Hepatocellular carcinoma (+ 24 %)
  • Malignant melanoma (+ 17 %)
  • Plasmocytoma (multiple myeloma) (+ 11 %)
  • Rectal cancer (+ 9 %)
  • Gallbladder carcinoma (+ 9 %)
  • Leukemia (+ 8 %)
  • Pancreatic cancer (+ 7 %)
  • Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (+ 6 %)
  • Prostate carcinoma (+ 3 %)

Women

  • Endometrial cancer (+ 59%)
  • Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus (+ 51 %)
  • Breast carcinoma (postmenopausal; + 12 %.
  • Gallbladder carcinoma (+ 59 %)
  • Renal cell carcinoma (+ 34 %)
  • Leukemia (+ 17 %)
  • Thyroid carcinoma (+ 14 %)
  • Pancreatic cancer (+ 12 %
  • Plasmocytoma (multiple myeloma) (+ 11 %)
  • Colon carcinoma (+ 9 % )
  • Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (+ 7%).

As in men, there was a negative association for bronchial carcinoma (- 20%) and squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus (- 43%). This also existed for premenopausal breast carcinoma (- 8%).