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ArticleCurrent oncology (Toronto, Ont.)2025

Global Incidence Trend of Early-Onset Obesity-Related and Non-Obesity-Related Cancers.

Miyu Terashima, Kota Nakayama, Satoko Ugai, Hwa-Young Lee, Yuta Tsukumo, Etsuji Suzuki, Hiroki Mizuno, Minkyo Song, Naoko Sasamoto, Ichiro Kawachi and 1 more

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Miyu TerashimaOkayama University Medical School, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.ORCID 0009-0000-2150-517X
Kota NakayamaOkayama University Medical School, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.ORCID 0009-0006-5417-3849
Satoko UgaiDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Hwa-Young LeeGraduate School of Public Health and Healthcare Management, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea.
Yuta TsukumoDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Etsuji SuzukiDepartment of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-1290-5793
Hiroki MizunoDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4187-1067
Minkyo SongLaboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
Naoko SasamotoPublic Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Ichiro KawachiDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Tomotaka UgaiDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA.

Funding

Integration of Immunology and Microbiology into Molecular Pathological Epidemiology of Colorectal CancerR50CA274122 · NCI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI UGAI, TOMOTAKA · 2023 to 2025
$506k
NCI NIH HHS R50 CA274122NIH HHS R50 CA274122
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The global rise in obesity prevalence and the incidence of early-onset cancer (diagnosed between 20 and 49 years of age) is a serious public health concern. We, therefore, evaluated the recent global trends in the incidence of early-onset obesity-related cancers and compared them to those of non-obesity-related cancers. We obtained age-standardized incidence rates of early-onset cancers diagnosed between 2000 and 2012 in 44 countries from the Cancer Incidence in Five Continents database. Using joinpoint regression models, we calculated the average annual percentage changes (AAPCs) and their corresponding 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) for combined and individual categories of obesity-related cancers (11 and 9 cancer types in females and males, respectively) and non-obesity-related cancers (12 cancer types in both females and males). Differences in the AAPC were assessed by comparing 95% CIs, where nonoverlapping 95% CIs were considered statistically significantly different. We observed statistically significant positive AAPCs for early-onset obesity-related cancers in all available countries combined among females (global AAPC, 4.3%; 95% CI, 4.1-4.6%) and males (global AAPC, 1.4%; 95% CI, 1.2-1.7%). When analyzed by countries, we observed statistically significant positive AAPCs in 26 countries among females and 11 countries among males. AAPCs for early-onset obesity-related cancers were statistically significantly higher than those of non-obesity-related cancers in several regions, especially North America and Oceania. In conclusion, this study indicates that the incidence of early-onset obesity-related cancers exhibited a more pronounced increasing trend than non-obesity-related cancers among both sexes in many countries and regions.

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NeoplasmsObesityAdultAge of OnsetFemaleGlobal HealthHumansIncidenceMaleMiddle AgedYoung Adultetiologyglobal healthneoplasmsrisk factorsyoung adults

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PMCPMC12191960

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