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Cancer diagnoses after recent weight loss

JAMA

2024-01-23
(Press-News.org) About The Study: Health professionals with weight loss within the prior two years had a significantly higher risk of cancer during the subsequent 12 months compared with those without recent weight loss in this study that included 157,000 participants. Cancer of the upper gastrointestinal tract was particularly common among participants with recent weight loss compared with those without recent weight loss. 

Authors: Brian M. Wolpin, M.D., M.P.H., of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jama.2023.25869)

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[Press-News.org] Cancer diagnoses after recent weight loss
JAMA