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Obesity and Cancer

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Editors:
  1. Tobias Pischon

    1. Molecular Epidemiology Research Group, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Robert-Rössle-Straße , Germany

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  2. Katharina Nimptsch

    1. Molecular Epidemiology Research Group, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Robert-Rössle-Straße, Germany

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  • Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the relationship between obesity and cancer
  • Combines epidemiological and experimental perspectives
  • Offers a detailed analysis of the effect of obesity on different types of cancers

Part of the book series: Recent Results in Cancer Research (RECENTCANCER, volume 208)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Obesity and Risk of Cancer: An Introductory Overview

    • Tobias Pischon, Katharina Nimptsch
    Pages 1-15

  3. Obesity and Colorectal Cancer

    • Carmen Jochem, Michael Leitzmann
    Pages 17-41

  4. Obesity and Breast Cancer

    • Renée T. Fortner, Verena Katzke, Tilman Kühn, Rudolf Kaaks
    Pages 43-65

  5. Obesity and Oesophageal Cancer

    • Katharina Nimptsch, Annika Steffen, Tobias Pischon
    Pages 67-80

  6. Obesity and Kidney Cancer

    • Kathryn M. Wilson, Eunyoung Cho
    Pages 81-93

  7. Obesity and Pancreatic Cancer

    • Dominique S. Michaud
    Pages 95-105

  8. Obesity and Endometrial Cancer

    • Eileen Shaw, Megan Farris, Jessica McNeil, Christine Friedenreich
    Pages 107-136

  9. Obesity and Prostate Cancer

    • Yin Cao, Edward Giovannucci
    Pages 137-153

  10. Obesity and Ovarian Cancer

    • Shelley S. Tworoger, Tianyi Huang
    Pages 155-176

  11. Obesity and Liver Cancer

    • Krasimira Aleksandrova, Marta Stelmach-Mardas, Sabrina Schlesinger
    Pages 177-198

  12. Obesity Biomarkers, Metabolism and Risk of Cancer: An Epidemiological Perspective

    • Katharina Nimptsch, Tobias Pischon
    Pages 199-217

  13. Biological Mechanisms for the Effect of Obesity on Cancer Risk: Experimental Evidence

    • Mauricio Berriel Diaz, Stephan Herzig, Tobias Schafmeier
    Pages 219-242

  14. Obesity as an Avoidable Cause of Cancer (Attributable Risks)

    • Andrew G. Renehan, Isabelle Soerjomataram
    Pages 243-256
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Molecular Epidemiology Research Group, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Robert-Rössle-Straße , Germany

    Tobias Pischon

  • Molecular Epidemiology Research Group, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Robert-Rössle-Straße, Germany

    Katharina Nimptsch

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Obesity and Cancer

  • Editors: Tobias Pischon, Katharina Nimptsch

  • Series Title: Recent Results in Cancer Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42542-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42540-5Published: 16 December 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82605-9Published: 04 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42542-9Published: 01 December 2016

  • Series ISSN: 0080-0015

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-6767

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 256

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Oncology, Cancer Research, Epidemiology

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