Energy intake, physical activity, energy balance, and cancer: epidemiologic evidence.
Obesity increases the risk of cancers of
- colon and rectum
- breast (in postmenopausal women)
- endometrium (lining of the uterus)
- kidney (renal cell)
- esophagus (adenocarcinoma).
Obesity probably increases cancers of
- pancreas
- liver
- gallbladder
- aggressive prostate cancer.
Methods Mol Biol. 2009;472:191-215.