Obesity and Cancer

1. Obesity and Risk of Cancer: An Introductory Overview
Tobias Pischon, Katharina Nimptsch

2. Obesity and Colorectal Cancer
Carmen Jochem, Michael Leitzmann

3. Obesity and Breast Cancer
Renée T. Fortner, Verena Katzke, Tilman Kühn, Rudolf Kaaks

4. Obesity and Oesophageal Cancer
Katharina Nimptsch, Annika Steffen, Tobias Pischon

5. Obesity and Kidney Cancer
Kathryn M. Wilson, Eunyoung Cho

6. Obesity and Pancreatic Cancer
Dominique S. Michaud

7. Obesity and Endometrial Cancer
Eileen Shaw, Megan Farris, Jessica McNeil, Christine Friedenreich

8. Obesity and Prostate Cancer
Yin Cao, Edward Giovannucci

9. Obesity and Ovarian Cancer
Shelley S. Tworoger, Tianyi Huang

10. Obesity and Liver Cancer
Krasimira Aleksandrova, Marta Stelmach-Mardas, Sabrina Schlesinger

11. Obesity Biomarkers, Metabolism and Risk of Cancer: An Epidemiological Perspective
Katharina Nimptsch, Tobias Pischon

12. Biological Mechanisms for the Effect of Obesity on Cancer Risk: Experimental Evidence
Mauricio Berriel Diaz, Stephan Herzig, Tobias Schafmeier

13. Obesity as an Avoidable Cause of Cancer (Attributable Risks)
Andrew G. Renehan, Isabelle Soerjomataram

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Oncology, Cancer Research, Epidemiology