09 Oct Obesity Linked to Alarming Risk in Gastric and Colon Cancers in Young Adults
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Dr. Hussan
Hisham Hussan, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director, Obesity and Bariatric Endoscopy Section
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Department of Internal Medicine
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Columbus, OH 43210
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: Obesity, a major healthcare burden, is an established risk factor for many gastrointestinal cancers. With obesity being on the rise, we inspected whether obesity related gastrointestinal cancers are increasing in different age groups, and relation to obesity.
MedicalResearch.com: What are the main findings?
Response: We identify an alarming increase in incidence of gastric and colorectal cancers in young adults (less than 50 years of age) between 2002-2013.
This was paralleled by an uptrend in obese patients undergoing surgeries for these cancers during the same period.
MedicalResearch.com: What should readers take away from your report?
Response: Our results suggest, for the first time, a contributing role of obesity in the etiology as well as the increasing incidence of gastric and colorectal cancers in young adults.
MedicalResearch.com: What recommendations do you have for future research as a result of this work?
Response: More studies are needed to investigate the interplay of epigenetics factors such as young-onset obesity and western diet in relation to risk of adults developing colorectal and gastric cancers at an earlier age. Also public policies are needed to counter obesity and the rising incidence of gastric and colorectal cancer in this young high risk group.
MedicalResearch.com: Is there anything else you would like to add?
Response: My main career focus is translational and clinical research at the interface of energy balance, the microbiome and gastrointestinal cancer.
We have no financial disclosers or conflict of interest.
Citation:
Rising, Age‐Specific, Trends of Obesity‐Related Gastrointestinal Cancers Correspond With Increasing Cancer Resections in Obese Patients: A 2002‐2013 National Analysis Using the SEER and NIS Databases
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Last Updated on October 9, 2018 by Marie Benz MD FAAD