Weight-loss surgery don’t cut cancer risk in men

Swedish researchers claim weight-loss surgery may help obese women, not men, lower their risk of developing cancer.

Dr Ian Campbell, medical director of the charity Weight Concern, believes that hormone levels are probably the key, with weight-loss surgery reducing the amount of hormone-producing fat cells in the body. According to his opinion, in obese men, the types of cancer most common are not so hormone sensitive and therefore not so directly influenced by weight loss.