Weight Loss and Cancer Risk Gains New Evidence From Real-World Obesity Care

A large Cleveland Clinic analysis adds to growing evidence that nonsurgical weight loss may lower the risk of several obesity-related cancers.

A real-world study of more than 143,000 adults with obesity found that reductions in BMI were associated with lower odds of developing obesity-related cancers, especially endometrial cancer and kidney cancer.

The findings support treating obesity as a chronic disease and raise important questions about whether newer obesity medications, including GLP-1 …