Esophageal cancer rates in British men have increased by 50 percent in Great Britain in a generation, a rise that is likely being pushed in part by continuing rate of poor diet and obesity, according to scientists on Saturday.

Also, researchers with the charity Cancer Research UK said, dubbed as the “fat man of Europe”, Britain is by far have higher rates of a kind of esophageal cancer called adenocarcinoma that is linked to obesity having a diet of high saturated fat.

Moreover, Janusz Jankowski of Barts & The London School of Medicine & Dentistry, whose research was supported by the charity, said that the obesity epidemic may be the main reason following the rise. They also stated that being overweight is also associated with the essential increase in the risk having adenocarcinoma. Adenocarcinoma is the major type of esophageal cancer that is on the increase.

They also said that changes in diets are probably linked with the increase; because people are tending to eat less fruits and vegetables.

Rates if adenocarcinoma in Britain were now among the main concerns in the world, which includes the United States that suggests factors in terms of genetics and rates of obese people can also be linked to the increase, Jankowski said in a telephone interview.

It is expected that Jankowski and his team will publicizes the outcome of the study into the factors of genetics that is likely behind the causes of the disease in six months time.

Also, he said that when the time that it will be published, that is the only time that they can say whether it is nature or nurture.

Furthermore, while in 1983, 9.6 in all 100,000 men in Britain were diagnosed having esophageal cancer, as shown on the figures by the Cancer Research UK. By now it is 14.4, a rise of 50 percent.