Despite what recently published on the Eur J Intern Med. by Bitzur et al. [
[1]
] who did not found a significant correlation between obesity and the incidence of
cancer in a population of mostly Jewish males, admitting themselves several limitations
of their study, evidence of a relationship between obesity and enhanced cancer risk
has been increasingly accumulating. Indeed, there are clear epidemiological findings
linking obesity to the incidence and worst prognosis of different tumors [
[2]
]. This prompted us to introduce in the scientific terminology the new term “adiponcosis”,
derived from the fusion of the words “adiposis” and “oncosis”, that is rapidly spreading
in the international science community [
[3]
].Keywords
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Publication history
Published online: December 27, 2016
Accepted:
December 19,
2016
Received in revised form:
December 16,
2016
Received:
December 11,
2016
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