Erratum to: Obesity and Cancer: Concepts and Challenges

Abstract

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Obesity and Cancer: Evidence, Postulated Mechanisms and Prospectives

“…Obesity is merely linked to metabolic dysregulations as insulin resistance, and associated with comorbidities as diabetes mellitus type 2, hypertension, cardiovascular complications and certain types of cancers [4]. Many reports has focused on the association of obesity with some types of cancers as adenocarcinoma of the esophagus, post-menopausal breast, ovarian, endometrium, liver, colorectal, gallbladder, pancreas, kidney, gastric cardia, as well as nonHodgkin lymphoma, multiple myeloma, metastatic prostate cancer, and unfortunately the list of cancer types is increasing [5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. Even more, obesity has been linked to increase the risk of recurrence, and deaths among cancer patients, thereby, better exploration and comprehensive understanding of the linking mechanisms between obesity and occurrence or aggressiveness of certain cancers, will allow the development of recent strategies against cancer [12][13][14].…”