The Link between Obesity and Cancer provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the relationship between obesity and cancer. It opens with a global perspective on obesity and cancer incidence, followed by in-depth discussions of those cancers for which we have sufficient and new evidence of a causal relationship with obesity. Readers can expect to get a fundamental knowledge about which different cancer types that are related to obesity and why. It provides a significant knowledge base for clinicians to know when to act and specific management guidelines for patients with obesity, as well as understand the potential risk factors and how to directly or indirectly minimize these risks. The book also provides never-before-published scientific data for any researcher in the field, identifying the molecular mechanisms and links behind the development of malignancy, and promote research in new effective target pathways in developing therapeutic strategies.