Alexander J. Alvarnas
Articles
October 16th 2019
Obesity and Cancer Risk: A Public Health Crisis
Obesity is associated with a number of adverse health-related complications and carries an elevated individual all-cause mortality risk. It would be hard to overstate the increased adverse health outcomes for obese individuals. What is far less well recognized by the general public is the significant link between obesity and increased cancer risk.
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