Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering and Weill Cornell Medical College have made a striking discovery about one head and neck cancer in which obesity was previously not thought to be a factor in survival. The research team found that obesity just before diagnosis is associated with a five-fold increase in the risk of death from early-stage squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Iyengar NM, et al. Impact of obesity on the survival of patients with early-stage squamous cell carcinoma of the oral tongue. Cancer. 2014 Jan 21. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24449483
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