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Obesity and Risk of Cancer: An Introductory Overview
Pages 1-15
Punto di Riferimento
per Medici e Operatori Sanitari
per Medici e Operatori Sanitari
LIBRERIA STUDIUM
Obesity and Cancer
Pischon, Nimptsch
Editore
Springer
Anno
2016
Pagine
256
ISBN
9783319425405
157,00 €
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.
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Obesity and Colorectal Cancer
Pages 17-41
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Obesity and Breast Cancer
Pages 43-65
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Obesity and Oesophageal Cancer
Pages 67-80
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Obesity and Kidney Cancer
Pages 81-93
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Obesity and Pancreatic Cancer
Pages 95-105
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Obesity and Endometrial Cancer
Pages 107-136
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Obesity and Prostate Cancer
Pages 137-153
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Obesity and Ovarian Cancer
Pages 155-176
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Obesity and Liver Cancer
Pages 177-198
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Obesity Biomarkers, Metabolism and Risk of Cancer: An Epidemiological Perspective
Pages 199-217
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Biological Mechanisms for the Effect of Obesity on Cancer Risk: Experimental Evidence
Pages 219-242
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Obesity as an Avoidable Cause of Cancer (Attributable Risks)
Pages 243-256
