Nathan A. Berger
Editor

2010

In a series of landmark articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine [1, 2] and Nature Reviews [3] between 1999 and 2004, Dr. Eugenia “Jeanne” Calle alerted the entire scientific and medical community to the epidemiologic evidence providing definitive support for the association between body mass, all cause mortality, and cancer mortality. Based on results from a prospectively studied cohort of more than 900,000 US adults in the American Cancer Society, Cancer Prevention II Study, Jeanne identified the association of increased body mass index with death rate for all cancers combined, as well as for specific malignancies in both men and women.