According to a new research, women who have stapled their stomach to look slimmer and to lose weight have also managed to reduce the risk of contracting cancer by over 40%.
A study was recently conducted which studied 2000 fat people who have had surgery to reduce the size of their stomachs. The study found that women who had the procedure were less likely to get cancer than those who did not.
However, the same procedure did not seem to have any of the same results in men. In fact, there was virtually no difference in the cancer rates in men who had the surgery and those who did not.
The research was published online Wednesday in the medical journal, Lancet Oncology.
There have been other studies that have proven that stapling of the stomach can have great results on the health of people who have undergone the procedure. One such study proved that stomach stapling surgery can prolong the lives of men and women by up to 10 years compared to those who don’t have it. A couple other studies have also proven that women in particular benefit from a lower cancer risk after getting the weight loss operation.
It has long been believed in the scientific community that fat people have a higher cancer risk, possibly because fat cells produce hormones that might lead to the disease. But, no other methods of weight loss have had any effect on reducing the risk of cancer.
“This is one more piece of evidence in a complex puzzle,” said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld of the American Cancer Society, who was not linked to the Lancet Oncology study. “There seems to be a relationship between weight and cancer, but there is a missing link we don’t understand.”
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