Gallbladder Cancer

Cancer and Sugar: Study Suggests a Link

06.08.2016 Large prospective study finds higher risk of gallbladder cancer by Parker Brown Staff Writer, MedPage Today People who reported daily consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks had a higher incidence of biliary tract cancer and gallbladder cancer, according to a new study. Researchers in Sweden studied nearly 71,00 adults and found that those who reported drinking […]

Consumption of soft drinks and juices and risk of liver and biliary tract cancers

European Journal of Nutrition December 2014 Date: 21 Dec 2014 Consumption of soft drinks and juices and risk of liver and biliary tract cancers in a European cohort Magdalena Stepien

North America Has Highest Rate of Obesity-related Cancers

Frontline Medical News, 2014 Dec 11, R Franki   For those cancers in which risk is associated with high body mass index, North America has the highest percentage of cancer incidence attributable to obesity, according to a population-based study in the Lancet Oncology. The investigators considered “only cancers reported by the World Cancer Research Fund […]

To Lower Your Risk of Cancer, Look to Your Waist

By: Austin Perlmutter, Medical Student, Miller School of Medicine Years of data now clearly demonstrate connections between obesity and increased risk for cancer. However, a new study published in the well-respected medical journal, The Lancet, is one of the first to examine this risk on a large scale. With over 5 million participants, the actual data is even […]

Excess Weight May Fuel Many Cancer Types

-Increasing body size had significant associations with 10 common types of cancer, a study involving more than 5 million people showed. by Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today August 14, 2014 Increasing body size had significant associations with 10 common types of cancer, a study involving more than 5 million people showed. Overall, body mass […]