Weight loss jabs halve risk of needing RT for cancer

[TheWallnerus]

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Paraphrased headline

Weight-loss jabs ‘halve the risk of cancer’

Drugs could have greater impact than obesity surgery, study suggests

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[OTN]

"Halve the risk of obesity-related cancers"

 

[thesauce]

Yep. Then they’ll live long enough to get a non obesity-related cancer. It’s the emperor of all maladies for a reason.

 

[RickyScott]

It seems like at least half of my prostate pts have niddm.

 

[ramsesthenice]

It’s a shell game at best. The ‘Merican lifestyle will find a way. Cancer isn’t going anywhere. FFS, we have cancer preventing vaccines we don’t even use.

 

[Lamount]

Would wonder about etoh related cancers as well, given that there seems to be some signals with decreasing addiction.

 

[DoctwoB]

Yep. Then they’ll live long enough to get a non obesity-related cancer. It’s the emperor of all maladies for a reason.

More prostate cancer for men.

Incidentally we seem awfully barbaric about screening and cutoffs. For example, cutting off psa screening at age 70. We all know a lot of 70 year olds that would never make it to die of prostate cancer, and plenty of 78 years olds who could. We have the data. An AI could easily scrape a patient's chart, plug their info into insurance actuarial tables, and generate an expected life expectancy with appropriate screening recommendations.

 

[TheWallnerus]

Incidentally we seem awfully barbaric about screening and cutoffs. For

We’ve done a pretty reasonable job of scrubbing racism from medicine but not so much ageism

 

[Mandelin Rain]

It’s a shell game at best. The ‘Merican lifestyle will find a way. Cancer isn’t going anywhere. FFS, we have cancer preventing vaccines we don’t even use.

 

[HolySmokes]

What kind of weight loss jabs are we talking? Like "hey fatty, try laying down the silverware for once" ?

Doesn't seem like it would be effective but who am I to argue with the data.

 

[A_DeMichele]

in some histologies (endometrial), weight loss is known to be #1

 

[RickyScott]

It is not so much weight per se but the hyperinsulemia/insulin resistance that causes cancer (and heart disease)

 

[medgator]

It is not so much weight per se but the hyperinsulemia/insulin resistance that causes cancer (and heart disease)

Weight definitely doesn't help. Extra adipose tissue increasing exogenous estrogen production

 

[RickyScott]

Weight definitely doesn't help. Extra adipose tissue increasing exogenous estrogen production

it does. obesity is the leading cause of cancer, but for most cancers, it is not likely through excess sex hormones, but insulin/IGF-1/PIK3/mtor

 

[madchemist89]

it does. obesity is the leading cause of cancer, but for most cancers, it is not likely through excess sex hormones, but insulin/IGF-1/PIK3/mtor

Sounds like the radbio boards