Comparing risk of colorectal cancer after weight-loss surgery

What The Study Did:

Researchers used French electronic health data to investigate how risk of colorectal cancer compared among obese adults who had weight-loss surgery and who didn’t.

Authors:

Laurent Bailly, M.D., Ph.D., Universite Cote d’Azur, Nice, France, and coauthors.

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(doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2020.0089)

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