BOSTON - Patients who are overweight when they're first diagnosed with cancer may be at higher risk of developing a second cancer. Investigators at the American Cancer Society looked at data on nearly ...

Overweight body mass index (BMI) is associated with favorable outcomes in patients with nonmetastatic head and neck cancer undergoing chemoradiotherapy, according to a study published online June 27 ...

Obesity almost always increases cancer risk and worsens outcomes, but researchers led by scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report that overweight patients with advanced kidney cancer had ...

Two studies, including one involving more than 100,000 women, linked GLP-1 receptor agonists to reduced incidence of breast cancer.

Being overweight might improve overall survival and progression-free survival for patients with head and neck cancer undergoing chemoradiotherapy, recent research showed. Patients with head and neck ...

A study found that the longer a woman is overweight or obese, the higher the risk of developing several forms of cancer, plus the degree of being overweight plays a role in the risk of developing ...

Overweight and obesity are contributing to rising death rates from bowel cancer among people aged 25-49 years in the European Union (EU) and the UK, although death rates from this type of cancer are ...

Individuals transitioning from overweight to obese in adulthood may have a higher ovarian cancer risk, emphasizing the need for primary prevention strategies. The study identified three BMI trajectory ...

Overweight babies are significantly more likely to go on to develop early age bowel cancer, according to a new study.

New research being presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, Netherlands (4–7 May), suggests that being overweight or obese amplifies the harmful effects of alcohol ...