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Obesity is a dangerous disease that shares key features with cancer

By Besma Boubertakh, Doctoral student, molecular medicine, Université Laval
Cristoforo Silvestri, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval

Obesity is a disease that shares several characteristics with cancer, but does not get the same society-wide recognition of its disease status, so people with obesity are less likely to get treatment.

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