IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention Volume 16: Body Fatness

A Working Group of 21 independent international experts met at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) on 5–12 April 2016 to assess the cancer-preventive effects of the absence of excess body fatness. A summary of the evaluations has now been published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The detailed assessments will be published as Volume 16 of the IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention. Also available is a Q&A on the Handbooks Volume 16 evaluations.

Body fatness and cancer – viewpoint of the IARC Working Group
Lauby-Secretan B, Scoccianti C, Loomis D, Grosse Y, Bianchini F, Straif K.
N Engl J Med. Published Online 25 August 2016; http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsr1606602

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