Obesity and Cancer

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....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Pischon, Tobias (Editor ), Nimptsch, Katharina (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Colección:Recent Results in Cancer Research, 208
Temas:
Oncology.
Cancer.
Epidemiology.
Cancer Biology.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Obesity and risk of cancer: a global perspective
  • Colorectal cancer
  • Breast cancer
  • Esophageal cancer
  • Kidney cancer
  • Pancreatic cancer
  • Endometrial cancer
  • Prostate cancer
  • Ovarian cancer
  • Liver cancer
  • Obesity biomarkers, metabolism and risk of cancer from an epidemiological perspective
  • Biological mechanisms for the effect of obesity on cancer risk: experimental evidence
  • Obesity as an avoidable cause of cancer.

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