Shedding excess.

It turns out bariatric surgery can help you shed more than those extra pounds; it also helps shed risk of obesity-related cancer and cancer deaths. This huge retrospective cohort study compared cancer incidence and mortality in the decade following bariatric surgery across 5K patients and 25K matched controls receiving obesity care at Cleveland Clinic from 2004-2017. The primary end point of obesity-related cancer (which included 13 cancer types) occurred in 2.9% 10 years after bariatric surgery versus 4.9% among controls with an adjusted hazard ratio of 0.68. Cancer-related death occurred in 0.8% 10 years after bariatric surgery group versus 1.4% among controls with an adjusted hazard ratio of 0.52. Add halving the risk of cancer death to the reasons one with a BMI >35 might commit to substantial sustainable weight loss. | Aminian, JAMA 2022