Obesity-related cancer rates nearly quadruple in Australia over three and a half decades

Researchers at Australia’s Daffodil Centre have found the rate of 10 obesity-linked cancers has nearly quadrupled between 1983 and 2017. Photograph: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images

The rate of obesity-related cancers in Australia has almost quadrupled in a few generations, new research suggests.

Researchers at the Daffodil Centre, a joint venture of Cancer Council New South Wales and the University of Sydney, analysed the rate of 10 obesity-linked cancers between 1983 and 2017.