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Metabolic and bariatric surgery is independently associated with a lower risk of incident cancer than nonsurgical obesity care.
Practitioners should consider metabolic and bariatric surgery as a viable option for reducing cancer risk in obese patients.
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Meta-analyses of cohort studies report that metabolic and bariatric surgery is independently associated with a lower risk of incident cancer than nonsurgical obesity care.
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Based on meta-analyses of cohort studies.
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Metabolic and bariatric surgery and obesity pharmacotherapy for cancer prevention: current status and future possibilities
Mary C. Playdon et al. · JNCI Monographs · 2023
DOI 10.1093/jncimonographs/lgad003
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