The American Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that more than 50{9f0e26ef0b5ce692651ab1cc66e30ab7f1406671e5174a30a4e11a95c0a2586d} of Americans are not aware that being overweight or obese can increase their risk of cancer. In the United Kingdom, Cancer Research United Kingdom (CRUK) have predicted that more than 1 in 20 cancer patients were either overweight or obese. GLOBOCAN project also predicted that the number of new cancer incidence increases with the number of patients who are overweight or obese.
What is more alarming is that being overweight has been linked to cancer with poor prognosis and this relationship was well-studied.