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Sustained weight loss of 10% or more through combinatorial lifestyle, medical, or surgical interventions is the most effective strategy for preventing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) by reversing or halting the progression of metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD).
To lower your risk of liver cancer, you need to reduce your body weight by at least 10%. This is best achieved by combining a calorie-restricted diet (focusing on plants and limiting sugars/fats) with regular exercise (150 minutes/week). If lifestyle changes aren't enough, medical therapies or bariatric surgery are highly effective options that provide durable weight loss and reverse liver disease. The goal is sustained weight reduction, not just short-term dieting.
Obesity treatment strategies that decrease body weight by 10% or more have the greatest impact on early to intermediate stage MAFLD. Combinatorial lifestyle, pharmaceutical, and/or surgical therapies are most likely to yield superior long-term HCC prevention by conferring durable and sustained weight reduction.
Why this rating
The paper is a review of observational and preclinical data; it explicitly states that prospective clinical studies demonstrating HCC prevention are currently lacking.
Source
Obesity Management in the Primary Prevention of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Elizabeth R. M. Zunica et al. · Cancers · 2022
DOI 10.3390/cancers14164051
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