Costs of cancer attributable to excess body weight in the Brazilian public health system in 2018.
Ronaldo Corrêa Ferreira da SilvaLuciana Ribeiro BahiaMichelle Quarti Machado RosaThainá Alves MalhãoEliane De Paula MendonçaRoger Dos Santos RosaDenizar Vianna AraújoLuciana Grucci Maya MoreiraArthur Orlando Correa SchilithzMaria Eduarda Leão Diogenes MeloPublished in: PloS one (2021)
A total of 1.76% of all federal cancer-related costs could be associated with EBW, representing a substantial economic burden for the public health system. We highlight the need for integrated policies for excess body weight control and cancer prevention.