Patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease had a moderately increased risk for extrahepatic cancers, such as gastrointestinal, breast and gynecological cancers, according to a meta-analysis.
Giovanni Targher, MD, from the University of Verona in Italy, and colleagues wrote that NAFLD is already recognized as a leading cause of hepatocellular carcinoma, but it is gaining interest for its link with other cancers as well.