Weight-loss jabs could prevent obesity-related cancers
Weight-loss jabs could cut the risk of obesity-related cancers.
Experts in Israel analysed data from 6,356 people - with around half of the volunteers having had bariatric surgery, which modifies the digestive system to lower food intake, and the rest took slimming jabs - and after an average follow-up of 7.5 years, 298 patients were found to have had obesity-related cancers.
Weight-loss jabs, or GLP-1-based medicines, such as tirzepatide - act like the glucose hormone GLP-1 by decreasing appetite and increasing feelings of fullness.
And researchers, who presented the findings - which are in the journal eClinicalMedicine - at the European Congress on Obesity in Malaga, Spain, said "new generation, highly potent GLP1-RAs with higher efficacy in weight reduction" such as Wegovy, can produce could result in an "even greater advantage" of reducing obesity-related cancers.
Study co-lead and author Professor Dror Dicker, from Rabin Medical Center in Israel, said: "New generation, highly potent GLP1-RAs with higher efficacy in weight reduction may convey an even greater advantage in reducing the risk of obesity-related cancers."
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