Bariatric surgery decreases the number of first-time hospital admissions for cancer in severely obese patients. A retrospective analysis of the National Inpatient Sample database.

CONCLUSIONS: Preliminary findings from a large U.S. database suggest that bariatric surgery may reduce the incidence of cancer in patients considered at high risk because of severe obesity.
PMID: 32847762 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery - July 27, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Gómez CO, Romero-Funes D, Aleman R, Frieder JS, Henrique J, Gutierrez-Blanco D, White KP, Lo Menzo E, Szomstein S, Rosenthal RJ Tags: Surg Obes Relat Dis Source Type: research