Evaluating the Cause of Death in Obese Individuals: A Ten-Year Medical Autopsy Study

Table 3

Malignancy in different organ systems as a cause of death in obese and nonobese individuals.

Malignancy	Obese (86)		Nonobese (187)		value
Hematologic^*	36	41.9%	76	40.6%	0.849
Carcinoma^†
Pancreas	9	10.5%	21	11.2%	0.851
Lung	7	8.1%	25	13.4%	0.212
Colon	0	0%	8	4.3%	0.052
Liver	7	8.1%	7	3.7%	0.126
Breast	5	5.8%	5	2.7%	0.199
Biliary	4	4.7%	6	3.2%	0.555
Kidney	1	1%	5	2.7%	0.429

Includes lymphomas of different organ systems.
^†Includes the organs that were most commonly involved by carcinoma and is not an exhaustive list of all tumors identified.