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Article: STUDY SAYS RISK OF CANCER DEATH HIGHER FOR OBESE PEOPLE AS WEIGHTS SOAR, SPECIALISTS PREDICT A RISE IN FATALITIES
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 24, 2003
- Author:
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Obese people face considerably higher risks of death from cancer
than those with healthy body weights, according to a study which
estimated that 90,000 cancer deaths could be prevented annually if
overweight Americans slimmed down.
With obesity on the rise in the United States and other
industrialized nations, the study's conclusions indicate that death
from many types of cancer will soon increase, in some cases quite
dramatically. Obese men, for instance, are more than four times as
likely to die from liver cancer than thinner men, the researchers at
the Atlanta-based American Cancer Society found. Obese women face six
times the death risk from cancer of the uterus.
Overall, the study, ...
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