Can overweight and obesity have such a big impact on cancer development?

The Spanish Medical Oncology Association (SEOM) has just launched a study to analyze the exact percentage of excessive pressure in cancer patients.

Do overweight and obesity have a greater impact on the development of cancer?

The Spanish Society of Medical Oncology (SEOM) recently launched a study to analyze the percentage of excess weight among cancer patients.

In Spain, more than half of the adult population is overweight or obese, the prevalence of overweight is 61.6%, and obesity is 23.8%.In the case of minors, one in three is overweight or obese.Extra pounds, which science has already proven, are linked to cardiovascular problems and diabetes, and are also linked to cancer.

However, the prevalence of obesity in Spain is unknown.To find out more about this, the working group on obesity, metabolism of Spain (SEMOM) recently started to study the obesity and obesity.Its purpose is to monitor obesity, fat and other patients who have not yet started treatment.

"Rodrigue" Rodríguez, Sem, President of Sem, "Madrid" during the Conference, which is held under the slogan "face cancer", cancer, science and care.

"We started recruiting patients in March when we saw the lack of scientific literature. We started with seven pilot hospitals and now there are 10 and another 25 are underway. And we hope that others will participate in the dissemination of the study and reach the 1,000 or 2,000 patients that we estimated we would reach," explained Elena Brozos, coordinator of the study, who is a member of Give, Give. A doctor at the Hospital Santiago deCompostela.

The goal: "To present the results at SEOM2026 after one year of patient follow-up," Rodriguez said.

In principle, Brozos admitted, it was a “very simple” study.Participants, cancer patients, weight, size and type of cancer, stage, calf and waist circumference, and patient age are recorded.So it's notable that it hasn't been done sooner.

And at present, it is not known that there is an increase in the percentage of obese patients.What level of obesity is the president?

Postmenopausal women are more likely to be overweight and obese in patients with early breast cancer and pancreatic cancer."In general, overweight and obesity are associated, according to Brozos," according to 13 cancers: meningioma, esophageal adenocarcinoma, multiple myeloma, endometrial, ovarian, thyroid, breast, liver, pancreatic, and colon and rectal cancer."

With gastric or pancreatic cancer, patients tend to lose weight. "When they come into oncology, it's not the right weight that they had in the last few years, so they ask how much they used to weigh," said Brozos, who emphasized that this study allows us to get a lot of information that will be used to conduct more studies.

"Our task, in addition to treating the disease, is to prevent it and one of the ways to do this is to promote a healthy lifestyle. Today we know that obesity causes a metabolic disorder, which in many cases creates a chronic inflammatory process linked to heart health and diabetes. There is already scientific evidence that obesity causes cancer.

But "since it seems that physical exercise is important for all aspects of cancer patients, such as survival control, we want to make sure that the treatment does not happen. But this must be proven," said de Castro.

"We know this relationship exists, but we want to confirm it," he added.

Knowing this early stage will help us to know whether obesity and overweight affect the development of cancer. It also reduces the efficiency of treatment. Therefore, future studies are planned to answer these and other questions.

And it is urgent, because the weight that obesity is taking in children.Saying that "Many times, nutritional support for cancer patients has a deficiency in weight loss.

"The Mediterranean diet in Spain", but in recent years we see an increase in childhood obesity, if we see an increase in childhood obesity, if we can contribute to the increase in obesity cancer, this child should not be obese", he stressed.

This will be one of the main things of the collection of the Congress, but not only the success of finding oncology and the bieomental treatment of the treatment, socio-economic relations and new challenges In the organization of long-term care of the victims are some of the topics that will be discussed, as he informed in detail Dr.