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CELL METABOLISM
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 48-62Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2015.12.015
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Although discussion of the obesity epidemic had become a cocktail party cliche, its impact on public health cannot be dismissed. In the past decade, cancer had joined the list of chronic debilitating diseases whose risk is substantially increased by hypernutrition. Here we discuss recent advances in understanding how obesity increases cancer risk and propose a unifying hypothesis according to which the major tumor-promoting mechanism triggered by hypernutrition is the indolent inflammation that takes place at particular organ sites, including liver, pancreas, and gastrointestinal tract. The mechanisms by which excessive fat deposition feeds this tumor-promoting inflammatory flame are diverse and tissue specific.
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