The Number Of Cancer Patients Due To Obesity Is Growing Rapidly In The US

The number of American patients who received one of the twelve different types of cancer related to obesity increased by 7 percent between 2005 and 2014. A number that, according to the US health authorities, is a threat to cancer decline in the United States.
That writes press service Reuters.
According to government agencies, more than 630,000 people were diagnosed with cancer in 2014 as a result of being overweight or obese. Between 2013 and 2014, two in three Americans were overweight or obese.

The number of patients with cancer that is not a consequence of the weight problem decreased by 13 percent.

According to the International Institute for Cancer Research, there are thirteen types of cancers that may have been caused by obesity, of which the number of patients of one species has not increased. The American institution that deals with the prevention of disease states that many Americans do not know that overweight can cause cancer.

‘Worrying’
“The trend we see is worrying,” says a spokesman for the so-called U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “There were already many reasons to strive for a healthy weight, we can now add cancer to it.”

She emphasizes that a lot of research is still being done into the relationship between obesity and cancer and that it is not clear whether losing weight after a diagnosis makes sense. It is clear that overweight increases the risks of cancer and that this can be reduced by losing weight.

The Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics mapped the obesity figures of the Netherlands in 2016. It turned out that 43.1 percent of the population is too heavy.