Obesity and cancer risk: Emerging biological mechanisms and perspectives

KI Avgerinos, N Spyrou, CS Mantzoros, M Dalamaga - Metabolism, 2019 - Elsevier
Continuously rising trends in obesity-related malignancies render this disease spectrum a
public health priority. Worldwide, the burden of cancer attributable to obesity, expressed as …

Cancer and Mediterranean diet: a review

MC Mentella, F Scaldaferri, C Ricci, A Gasbarrini… - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
The Mediterranean diet is considered one of the most worldwide healthy dietary patterns
thanks to a combination of foods rich mainly in antioxidants and anti-inflammatory nutrients …

Risk factors for endometrial cancer: an umbrella review of the literature

O Raglan, I Kalliala, G Markozannes… - … journal of cancer, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Although many risk factors could have causal association with endometrial cancer, they are
also prone to residual confounding or other biases which could lead to over‐or …

Dietary fibre in Europe: current state of knowledge on definitions, sources, recommendations, intakes and relationships to health

AM Stephen, MMJ Champ, SJ Cloran… - Nutrition research …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Research into the analysis, physical properties and health effects of dietary fibre has
continued steadily over the last 40–50 years. From the knowledge gained, countries have …

Evaluating intrinsic and non-intrinsic cancer risk factors

S Wu, W Zhu, P Thompson, YA Hannun - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Discriminating the contribution of unmodifiable random intrinsic DNA replication errors ('bad
luck') to cancer development from those of other factors is critical for understanding cancer in …

Shared risk factors in cardiovascular disease and cancer

RJ Koene, AE Prizment, A Blaes, SH Konety - Circulation, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer are the 2 leading causes of death worldwide.
Although commonly thought of as 2 separate disease entities, CVD and cancer possess …

Endometrial cancer

P Morice, A Leary, C Creutzberg, N Abu-Rustum… - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Endometrial cancer is the most common gynaecological tumour in developed countries, and
its incidence is increasing. The most frequently occurring histological subtype is …

Breast cancer epidemiology and risk factors

K Rojas, A Stuckey - Clinical obstetrics and gynecology, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Between the years 2010 and 2012, the lifetime probability of develo** female breast
cancer was 12.3%, or approximately 1 in 8. Worldwide, breast cancer is the most common …

Adiposity and cancer at major anatomical sites: umbrella review of the literature

M Kyrgiou, I Kalliala, G Markozannes, MJ Gunter… - Bmj, 2017 - bmj.com
Objective To evaluate the strength and validity of the evidence for the association between
adiposity and risk of develo** or dying from cancer. Design Umbrella review of systematic …

Endometrial cancer

EJ Crosbie, SJ Kitson, JN McAlpine, A Mukhopadhyay… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Endometrial cancer is the most common gynaecological cancer in high income countries
and its incidence is rising globally. Although an ageing population and fewer benign …