Obesity-related cancer rates nearly quadruple in Australia over three and a half decades

Researchers call on governments to implement national obesity strategy to help stem further rises in preventable cancers

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The rate of obesity-related cancers in Australia has almost quadrupled in a few generations, new research suggests.

Researchers at the Daffodil Centre, a joint venture of Cancer Council New South Wales and the University of Sydney, analysed the rate of 10 obesity-linked cancers between 1983 and 2017.

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