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.
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