
NCI Webinar: The Role of Obesity as a Risk Factor for Early-Onset Cancers
The objectives of the webinar are to:
- Provide expert review of epidemiological trends for gastrointestinal cancers, particularly colorectal and pancreatic cancer.
- Determine the role of early-life overweight and obesity and obesity-related risk factors in the development of early-onset cancer and cancer at older ages.
- Define the challenges and research gaps in our current understanding of early-life adiposity and the development of early-onset cancer and cancer at older ages.
Speakers:
“Never Too Young: Obesity and the Exposome in Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer”
Christopher Lieu, MD, FASCO
Professor of Medicine
Associate Director for Clinical Research
University of Colorado Cancer Center
“Is Early Life Adiposity Associated with Pancreatic Cancer Risk?”
Rachael Zoe Stolzenberg-Solomon, PhD, MPH, RD
Senior Investigator
Metabolic Epidemiology Branch
NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
National Institutes of Health