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Cancer (Breast, Colorectal, Endometrial, Kidney)

What is it:
Cancer is a term for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and can invade other tissues. Cancer cells can spread to other parts of the body through the blood and lymph systems.

Who has it: 
11 Million Americans.
Considerable evidence suggests that obesity and overweight play an important role in cancer. Obesity and overweight have been clearly associated with increased risks for cancer in both women and men.

Consequences:   
According Martin Wiseman, project director for research published by the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research in February 2008, ‘the public has the notion that fat gives you heart disease and diabetes‚ but they don't realize it also gives you cancer. After smoking, obesity is the highest preventable cancer risk.’ More than 90,000 cancer deaths a year could be prevented if American adults maintained a healthy weight. A 2003 study by the American Cancer Society provides evidence that as many as one in five cancer deaths each year among adults age 50 and over in the United States can be directly attributed to excess body weight. Based on the American Cancer Society’s 2002 estimates for cancer incidence, cancers linked to obesity among women comprise approximately 51% of all new cancers diagnosed among women in 2002. For women, obesity related cancers are estimated to comprise 28% of cancer-related deaths in 2002. Among men, cancers linked to obesity comprise approximately 14% of new cancers. For men, obesity-related cancers are estimated to comprise 13% of cancer-related deaths in 2002.