Impact of Obesity on Quality of Life, Psychological Distress, and Coping on Patients with Colon Cancer.

Background: Despite the causal relationship between obesity and colon cancer being firmly established, the effect of obesity on the course of cancer calls for further elucidation. The objective of this study was to assess differences in clinical-pathological and psychosocial variables between obese and nonobese individuals with colon cancer.

Materials And Methods: This was a prospective, multicentric, observational study conducted from 2015-2018.