Being overweight/obese is already known to increase the risk for certain cancers, but this association has just become much wider. Another eight cancers have been added to the list, joining the five already there. The new findings come from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is part of the World Health Organization (WHO).
They are published in the IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention, Volume 16: Body Fatness , which provides an update of part of IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention Volume 6: Weight Control and Physical Activity , published in 2002. A summary was published online in the New England Journal of Medicine states that Rather than saying that overweight/obesity increases the risk for cancer, the IARC has presented its findings another way: "the absence of excess body fatness reduces the risk of cancers." The IARC confirmed its previous findings…
