Gastric bypass surgery was found effective in blocking cancer in some people, according to a new study by researchers at McGill University in Montreal.
Gastric bypass surgery was found effective in blocking cancer in some people, according to a new study by researchers at McGill University in Montreal.
Dr. Nicolas Christou, director of bariatric surgery and professor of surgery at McGill presented the study at the annual meeting of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric surgery in Washington D.C. on Wednesday.
Dr. Cristou and his colleagues compared data of 1,035 obese patients who had bariatric surgery from mid-’80 to 2002 and data of 5,746 obese patients who did not have surgery.
They found that patients undergoing bypass surgery lost an average of 67 percent of their excess body weight, cutting their risk of developing cancer by 80 percent, which Dr. Christou called “the icing on the cake.”
Breast and colon cancer saw the most dramatic decrease, with 85 percent, respectively 70 percent.
The findings highlights once again what researchers have long sustained, namely that obesity is a profound risk of cancer.
According to a study released in July last year by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Human Nutrition, by 2015, 75 percent of American adults will be overweight and 41 percent obese.
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