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Obesity and Cancer

Tobias Pischon, Katharina Nimptsch (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

VIII, 256 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-42540-5 (ISBN)

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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. It addresses topics such as the effects of obesity on cancer incidence and cancer survival, the effects of weight gain and weight loss in adulthood on cancer risk, the effects of childhood and adolescent obesity, and the role of body fat distribution in cancer risk. Individual chapters discuss potential pathways for the observed associations and explore possible mechanisms from both an epidemiological and an experimental perspective. It concludes with a population perspective on the cancer risk that is attributable to obesity and is thus potentially avoidable. This book is of particular value to researchers and epidemiologists and is also of interest to public health workers and clinicians.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	Recent Results in Cancer Research
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 256 p. 20 illus., 8 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
Schlagworte	Biological Mechanisms • Cancer • Cancer Research • epidemiology • Medicine • Metabolism • Obesity • Oncology • Risks
ISBN-10	3-319-42540-4 / 3319425404
ISBN-13	978-3-319-42540-5 / 9783319425405
Zustand	Neuware