Body Fatness and Cancer--Viewpoint of the IARC Working Group

N Engl J Med. 2016 Aug 25;375(8):794-8. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsr1606602.

Authors

Béatrice Lauby-Secretan¹, Chiara Scoccianti¹, Dana Loomis¹, Yann Grosse¹, Franca Bianchini¹, Kurt Straif¹; International Agency for Research on Cancer Handbook Working Group

Collaborators

International Agency for Research on Cancer Handbook Working Group:
Graham Colditz, Annie S Anderson, Ronald A Herbert, Rudolf Kaaks, Henry J Thompson, Jennifer L Baker, João Breda, Tim Byers, Margot P Cleary, Mariachiara Di Cesare, Susan M Gapstur, Marc Gunter, Stephen D Hursting, Michael Leitzmann, Jennifer Ligibel, Andrew Renehan, Isabelle Romieu, Isao Shimokawa, Cornelia M Ulrich, Kaitlin Wade, Elisabete Weiderpass

Affiliation

¹ From the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France (B.L.-S., C.S., D.L., Y.G., K.S.); and the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg (F.B.).

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Advisory Committees
Child
Congresses as Topic
Disease Susceptibility
Female
Humans
Male
Neoplasms / etiology*
Obesity / complications*
Risk Factors

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