It just seems like this allows earlier detection of the possibility of getting cancer, which surely means more opportunity to tell the patient to lose weight. B

It just seems like this allows earlier detection of the possibility of getting cancer, which surely means more opportunity to tell the patient to lose weight. By the time you've got stomach cancer, it's a little late. (Obesity still seems to be the major factor in the new test -- the old one required hip and waist measurements, and the new one does not, which says to me that they've found a bunch of correlates to obesity which don't require taking new measurements.)