Obesity and Cancer

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

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.

• Biological Mechanisms
• Cancer
• Epidemiology
• Metabolism
• Obesity
• Risks

• 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

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