Body-mass index, cancer, and implications for screening

Affiliations

¹ Surgical Oncologic and Digestive Unit, Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris-Diderot, 75010 Paris, France.
² Department of Digestive Surgery, Hôpital Saint-Antoine Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.
³ Department of Hepato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris XII-Créteil, Paris, France.
⁴ Department of Medical Oncology, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.
⁵ Surgical Oncologic and Digestive Unit, Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris-Diderot, 75010 Paris, France. Electronic address: marc.pocard@gmail.com.

Comment

Clarisse Eveno et al. Lancet Oncol. 2015 Mar.

. 2015 Mar;16(3):e102-3.

doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(15)70029-X.

¹ Surgical Oncologic and Digestive Unit, Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris-Diderot, 75010 Paris, France.
² Department of Digestive Surgery, Hôpital Saint-Antoine Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.
³ Department of Hepato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris XII-Créteil, Paris, France.
⁴ Department of Medical Oncology, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.
⁵ Surgical Oncologic and Digestive Unit, Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris-Diderot, 75010 Paris, France. Electronic address: marc.pocard@gmail.com.

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Global burden of cancer attributable to high body-mass index in 2012: a population-based study.
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