PARIS: Overweight and obesity is now causing nearly half a million new cancer cases in adults every year, roughly 3.6 percent of the world's total, a study said Wednesday.

A quarter of these cases are "realistically avoidable," said the authors of the work published in The Lancet Oncology.

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