Obesity, a risk factor for cancer.

Spain, February 2013.- Overweight and obesity have become over the years one of the major risk factors of modern societies. In this regard, studies conducted by the American Institute for research on Cancer (AICR) atop the barrier of 100,000 the number of cases of the disease caused by obesity each year in the United States. In Europe, at the beginning of the 21st century, it was estimated that more than 70,000 people developed disease due to overweight and their increasing level of body fat, while recent studies approach the figures to 125,000 cases.

On this basis, the obesity Institute wants to warn of the growing relationship between obesity and colon cancer. Thus, according to the EPIC study – acronym for European prospective investigation on nutrition and Cancer, with data from 521.000 people in ten European countries, people with obesity are more likely to develop cancer of colon than people with normal weight. But the percentages vary depending on the type of obesity being the main risk factor over obesity or overweight generalized abdominal obesity.

In this way, men and women with abdominal obesity have 52% higher risk of developing cancer of colon than people with a normal hip-waist ratio. Excess weight not only influences the development of the disease but also the risk of mortality once detected colon cancer.

Recent research published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, also noted that the risk of mortality once detected the disease was 30% higher in people with obesity than in people with normal weight. And if in addition to obesity will have type 2 – diabetes a disease that suffer a large part of overweight people – forecasts worsen even more.

These studies are attached to others that relate the problem of obesity with other types of cancer. So, a report by the World Health Organization (who) says that overweight among citizenship increases 30% the number of deaths by cancer. In him it is revealed that this high percentage of cancer deaths can be avoided with a change in lifestyles and healthier behaviors.

This percentage corresponds to deaths attributed to overweight, low fruit and vegetable consumption, lack of physical activity and consumption of alcohol and tobacco, with the latter being the risk factor, more important and accounts for 20% of cancer deaths overall and 71% of deaths caused by malignant tumors of the lung.

In this context, the Institute of obesity advocates a diet healthy at all ages of development and in adult life, combined with the appropriate sport. So it will be necessary to provide one sufficient number of energy nutrients which allow to carry out the necessary physical and psychological work and metabolic processes. All factors for which the Institute has one of the best professional teams possible, that facilitate compliance with diet and physical activity proposed for each client.

The doctor Adelardo Knight , director of the Institute of obesity , is Doctor ‘ Cum laude unanimously ’ for his thesis “segmental transplant of pancreas in the neck with microsurgery: a new experimental model”, in the Faculty of Medicine of the UAM, which has been awarded the special prize of the Royal Academy of medicine. Degree in medicine and surgery from the Complutense University of Madrid with 24 registration of Honor. Specialist in General Surgery and transplantation of organs, is currently attending physician of General Surgery and appliance digestive system of the Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; consultant in general surgery at the La Luz clinic in Madrid and at the children’s Hospital of San Rafael de Madrid. Awarded the extraordinary degree award from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, he did his training post graduate in Israel, Sweden, Canada and the United States. It is also one of the pioneers in the use of intragastric balloons, for treatment of obesity in Spain. He has implanted more than 1,500 intragastric balloons in the past five years, with very good results. In addition, he has performed more than 1,000 interventions of Bariatric Surgery. It is one of the pioneers in our country in the introduction of the gastroplasty endoscopic POSE, method that allows a reduction in stomach without making any kind of surgical excision, avoiding scars.