Obesity linked to specific cancers

About 100,500 new cases of cancer are caused by obesity every year, according to the most comprehensive attempt ever to estimate the cancers attributed to extra weight.

The analysis, released today by the American Institute for Cancer Research, is based on updated cancer data and a report released earlier this year by a panel of experts. Among the types of cancer most strongly linked to excess body fat:

•Breast, 33,000 cases a year caused by obesity.

•Endometrial, 20,700 cases a year.

•Kidney, 13,900 cases.

•Colorectal, 13,200 cases.

•Pancreas, 11,900.

•Esophagus, 5,800.

•Gallbladder, 2,000.

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