Obesity, Diabetes, and Cancer

Volume 02, Issue 11
May 2011

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Interview with:

Derek LeRoith, MD, PhD, Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Bone Diseases; Director of the Metabo­lism Institute; Lillian and Henry M. Stratton Professor of Molecular Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

Cancer risk

Many observational and epidemiologic studies have shown that cancer risk increases with obesity. In addition, type 2 diabetes, which is closely related to obesity, is independently associated with increased cancer morbidity...