Study: Weight-loss surgery cuts cancer risk in women

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By Denise Mann

Weight-loss surgery can sometimes reverse type 2 diabetes and ease other obesity-related conditions. Now, new research suggests that obese women who undergo bariatric surgery experience a 42 percent drop in their cancer risk.
Women who had bariatric surgery lowered their risk of cancer compared with obese women without the surgery.

Women who had bariatric surgery lowered their risk of cancer compared with obese women without the surgery.

Exactly why this occurs and whether it's also true for obese men is not yet clear. Obesity is a known risk factor for colon, breast, endometrial, kidney and esophageal cancers. However, the researchers found that the surgery-related weight loss and drop in caloric intake did not seem to be solely responsible for the decline in the women's cancer risk, according to the report in the July issue of Lancet Oncology.

"Evidently, one or several risk factors for cancer are favorably influenced by bariatric surgery in women," said lead study author Dr. Lars Sjöström, a professor of medicine at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/24/health.weight.surgery.cancer/">Wierd huh? I wonder if this is true. Well, here is the link.