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Excess Pounds Raise Cancer Risk
Excess Pounds Raise Women's Cancer Risk
Nov. 7 (HealthDay News) -- A study of more than 1 million British women finds that overweight or obesity is to blame for about 5 percent of all cancer cases.
That's about 6,000 out of the 120,000 cancers affecting British women each year.
The study, by researchers from the University of Oxford, found that overweight and obese women are at higher risk of developing and dying from cancer, including breast cancer in postmenopausal women, colon cancer in premenopausal women, and pancreatic and kidney cancer generally.
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