The August 14, 2014 issue of the medical journal The Lancet published that overweight and obese people are significantly more likely to develop 10 types of cancer than the general population. The 10 types of cancer in order are: uterine cancer (62%), gallbladder cancer (31%), kidney cancer (25%), cervical cancer (10%), thyroid cancer (9%), and leukemia (9%), liver cancer (19%), colorectal cancer (10%), ovarian cancer (9%), and breast cancer (5%). The Lancet published the article “Body-mass index and risk of 22 specific cancers: a population-based cohort study of 5-24 million UK adults” in the August 14, 2014 issue of the medical journal The Lancet. million UK adults”, an article that counted 12,000 cases of cancer caused by obesity in the UK each year and predicted that the rate of cancer in the obese population will increase by 3,700 cases per year. Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine collected data from 5 million people living in the UK, and after seven years of studying changes in BMI (body mass index) in obese people, found that adults with a BMI of 13-16 kg above normal were significantly more likely to develop 10 types of cancer. The researchers also predicted that for every 1 kg/m² (about 3 to 4 kg, or 8 to 10 pounds) increase in the average body mass index of the entire UK population based on current trends, there would be 3,790 new cancer patients for the 10 cancers in the table.