title: Peculiarities of the obese patient with cancer: a national consensus statement by the Spanish Society for the Study of Obesity and the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology.
abstract: The relationship between obesity and cancer is clear and is present at all times during course of the disease. The importance of obesity in increasing the risk of developing cancer is well known, and some of the most prevalent tumours (breast, colorectal, and prostate) are directly related to this risk increase. However, there is less information available on the role that obesity plays when the patient has already been diagnosed with cancer. Certain data demonstrate that in some types of cancer, obese patients tolerate the treatments more poorly. Obesity is also known to have an impact on the prognosis, favouring lower survival rates or the appearance of secondary tumours. In this consensus statement, we will analyse the scientific evidence on the role that obesity plays in patients already diagnosed with cancer, and the available data on how obesity control can improve the quality of daily life for the cancer patient.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oncología Médica, Hospital Clínico Universitario San Carlos, Calle Profesor Martín Lagos, s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain. pedro.perez@salud.madrid.org.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pérez-Segura
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Endocrinología, Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Spain.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Palacio
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oncología Médica, Complejo Hospitalario de Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vázquez
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Endocrinología, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Monereo
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oncología Médica, Consorcio Hospitalario Provincial de Castellón, Castellón de la Plana, Castellón, Spain.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: de Las Peñas
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Endocrinología, Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa, Leganés, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: P Martínez
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: de Icaya
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oncología Médica, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Grávalos
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Endocrinología, Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida, Spain.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lecube
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oncología Médica, Consorcio Hospital General Universitario de Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Blasco
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Endocrinología, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Málaga, Spain.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: García-Almeida
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oncología Médica, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Barneto
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Endocrinología, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.|Departament de Medicina, IMIM Institut Mar de Investigacions Mediques, CiberOBN, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goday
mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: Cancer; Comorbidity; Morbid obesity; Mortality; Neoplasm recurrence; Obesity; Risk assessment; Survival rate