Morbid obesity can lead to an increase in 13 different types of cancer. According to the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer, these include pancreatic cancer, thyroid cancer and breast cancer (after menopause). However, the therapies for treating different types of cancer differ fundamentally.
While surgical removal of the thyroid gland is usually the main treatment for thyroid cancer, lymphoma, for example, is treated mainly with chemotherapy and radiotherapy, affecting the patient's entire body.