Overweight, Obesity, and Mortality from Cancer in a Prospectively Studied Cohort of U.S. Adults

The influence of excess body weight on the risk of death from cancer has not been fully characterized.In a prospectively studied population of more than 900,000 U.S. adults (404,576 men and 495,477 women) who were free of cancer at enrollment in 1982, there were 57,145 deaths from cancer during 16 years of follow-up. We examined the relation in men and women between the body-mass index in 1982 and the risk of death from all cancers and from...