Childhood Obesity and Cancer Risk in Adulthood

The purpose of this review is to summarize our current understanding of the association between childhood obesity and cancer risk later in life. Adipose tissue secrets a variety of adipocytokines, and expression and/or secretion rate of most of them seems to be increased or dysregulated in obesity. In addition, obesity leads to increased secretion of proinflammatory cytokines such as interferon-γ (IFN-γ), interleukin 6 (IL-6), and tumor necrosis...