Does Weight-Loss Surgery Lower Cancer Risk?

Does Weight-Loss Surgery Lower Cancer Risk? Posted by Jacob Goldstein Patients who had surgery to treat morbid obesity had a dramatically lower risk of cancer than similar patients who didn’t have surgery, Canadian researchers are reporting. The difference was significant in colon and breast cancers, both of which have been linked to obesity. Bariatric surgeons at McGill University compared the records of more than 1,000 patients who who had surgery with some 5,700 comparable patients w