Obesity ops 'may cut cancer risk'

Weight-loss surgery could help women ? but not men ? reduce their risk of cancer, research suggests.

Obesity is known to increase the risk of many types of cancer, but it was unclear whether surgery to address the problem also cut the risk of cancer.

Now a Swedish study, published in Lancet Oncology, has shown that weight-loss surgery is associated with a 42% reduction in cancer levels in women.  Click here for full article.