Low risk of cancer has been observed in diseased obese patients who go through weight-loss surgery; a study provides new evidence of effectiveness of these trendy and common surgeries.

McGill University’s researchers discovered that the risk for breast and colon cancer had greatly reduced in the people who went through bariatric operation and a dramatic weight loss was also observed in many patients after such operations.

People who are at least 100 pounds overweight are considered diseased obese.1, 035 patients who had bariatric surgery were followed by the researchers for five years. They also tracked 5,746 patients who were similar age, sex and weight as of surgery group but they didn’t have such operation.

Almost 80 percent lower risk of cancer was found in patients who went through bariatric operation, the researchers found.

“The evidence is backing that if you are extremely overweight, weight-loss surgery to lose weight can be very handy not only for health but also for your quality of life.” stated Dr. Nicolas Christou who led the study.

Besides 85 percent reduced incidence of breast cancer and 70 percent of colon cancer, there was also reductions in pancreatic cancer, uterine cancer and skin cancer in people who went through bariatric surgery, the researchers suggested.

The risk for several types of cancers like breast, colon esophagus and kidney is higher in obese people and they also tend to various other disease.

The study supports the findings of the study that was issued in the New England Journal of Medicine last year and suggesting that obese people who went through bariatric surgery had reduced risk of death from cancer, heart disease and diabetes.

In Bariatric operations the anatomy of digestive system is altered to reduce the capacity of food that one can take and digest.

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