Obesity Lowers Odds of Surviving Breast Cancer
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Previous reports have shown that obesity increases a woman&#39;s risk of developing breast cancer -- and now new research indicates that obesity continues to have a negative effect once breast cancer occurs.
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Women who develop breast cancer are  no more likely to have aggressive or advanced tumors if they  are cigarette smokers than if they do not smoke, researchers  said on Sunday.
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NEW YORK  - Although obesity is usually  linked to detrimental health consequences, new research  indicates that overweight people with heart failure have a  lower mortality risk than those of normal weight.
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American Cancer Society - A long-term study of breast cancer survivors shows that eating more than the recommended 5 daily servings of vegetables and fruit has no effect on breast cancer recurrence or deaths. Although researchers are disappointed by the finding, they say women should still strive to fit plenty of these healthy foods into their diet because they have other benefits.
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The way a girl grows during adolescence and even in the womb may play an important, if murky, role in her risk of breast cancer later in life, a study suggests. The study of 117,000 women in Denmark found that those who were chubby at birth but tall and lean at 14 were more likely to develop the disease...
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TUESDAY, Sept. 14 (HealthDayNews) -- A daily walk around the block, a few laps in the pool, a vigorous game of soccer: studies suggest exercise is extending the lives of women who've survived breast cancer, even as it lifts their spirits.
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NEW YORK  - Getting plenty of recreational activity may reduce women's risk of developing breast cancer after menopause, and exercise appears to have the most powerful preventive effect on the most aggressive type of tumor.
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NEW YORK  - Previous reports have shown  that obesity increases a woman's risk of developing breast  cancer -- and now new research indicates that obesity continues  to have a negative effect once breast cancer occurs.
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The way a girl grows during her early years may influence her risk of breast cancer, a research suggests. A Danish study of more than 117,000 women found those born chubby, but who went on to become tall and lean teenagers had the highest risk.
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Being obese boosts the risk of half a dozen types of cancer, and the odds strengthen as one's waistline thickens, according to a major review published on Saturday by The Lancet.
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NEW YORK  - The risk of developing a type  of kidney cancer, renal cell carcinoma, is directly related to  body mass index (BMI) and to the increase in BMI since age 20,  according to the findings from two new European studies.
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Women who put on a lot of weight at any stage of adulthood increase their risk of breast cancer, likely because the hormone estrogen accumulates in the acquired fat and promotes tumors, researchers said on Monday.
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Women who are overweight when diagnosed with breast cancer or who become overweight after learning of their condition are more likely to die or have the disease come back, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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Exercise is not enough to offset the increased death risk associated with being obese, research suggests. A study of more than 116,000 women nurses found physical activity did not totally compensate for the higher death risk associated with being obese.
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MONDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- It may be unhealthy in many other ways, but smoking does not appear to raise the odds that a woman with breast cancer will have more aggressive or later-stage malignancy at the time of diagnosis, researchers report.
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NEW YORK  - Being obese more than doubles  the risk of a type of leukemia -- acute myelogenous leukemia  (AML) -- in older women, according to a new report. The risk is  only slightly diminished in women who are overweight.
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Obesity can double the risk of several  cancers, according to a study published on Friday that for the  first time also links being overweight with a number of less  common forms of the disease.