Overweight and obesity is now causing nearly half a million new cancer cases in adults every year, roughly 3.6 percent of the world's total, a study said Wednesday. A quarter of these cases are "realistically avoidable," said the authors of the work published in The Lancet Oncology. Led by scientists at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the paper drew on a range of sources, including a large database of cancer incidence and mortality for 184 ...Wednesday 26 November 2014
Obesity Linked to 500,000 Cancer Cases Per Year
Overweight and obesity is now causing nearly half a million new cancer cases in adults every year, roughly 3.6 percent of the world's total, a study said Wednesday. A quarter of these cases are "realistically avoidable," said the authors of the work published in The Lancet Oncology. Led by scientists at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the paper drew on a range of sources, including a large database of cancer incidence and mortality for 184 ...
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