For people with obesity, bariatric surgery is by far the most effective way to lose weight and keep it off, albeit also the most invasive.
found something similar, highlighting that the incidence of breast, gynecologic, kidney, brain, lung and thyroid cancer were all lowered for those who had the surgery.
While these numbers sound really impressive, it's important to look at the absolute risk of these cancers as well. After 10 years, 2.9 percent of the bariatric surgery group and 4.9 percent of the control group had gotten a cancer related to obesity. This makes the absolute risk increase of these cancers 2 percent. The death by these cancers was even lower – an absolute risk difference of 0.6 percent.The second study involved a smaller group, but it looked into specific cancer types; it involved 1,620 patients who either had a gastric bypass or a sleeve gastrectomy, and 2,156 controls.
"According to the American Cancer Society, obesity is second only to tobacco as a preventable cause of cancer in the United States,""This study provides the best possible evidence on the value of intentional weight loss to reduce cancer risk and mortality."
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