Obesity increases cancer threat
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Breast cancer is more likely to kill obese women than those of normal weight, research suggests. US researchers from the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia examined data on more than 2,000 patients with early stage breast cancer.
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A Danish study has found women who were tall and skinny as teenagers have a higher risk of contracting breast cancer. The study published in The New England Journal of Health found women who were heavy babies
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Being overweight boosts the risk of dying from diabetes and kidney disease but not cancer or heart disease, and carrying some extra pounds appears actually to protect against a host of other causes of death, federal researchers reported today.
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Oct. 6, 2004 (Atlanta) -- There&#39;s more evidence that obesity can be deadly. A new study shows obese women with early stage breast cancer are at greater risk of dying of their disease.
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Women who gain weight as adults face  a higher lifetime risk of all types of breast cancer,  researchers reported on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - Recreational physical activity   in the year before a diagnosis of breast cancer seems to have a   positive influence on the prognosis of young women who are   overweight or obese when they are diagnosed, new research   suggests.
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Obese men who undergo surgery for prostate cancer are more likely than their non-obese peers to experience a rise in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels, a sign that their disease is returning, new research suggests. Moreover, this seems to be true even in cases in which all of the cancer was apparently removed at surgery.
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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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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.
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NEW YORK  - Obese men who undergo surgery  for prostate cancer are more likely than their non-obese peers  to experience a rise in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels,  a sign that their disease is returning, new research suggests.  Moreover, this seems to be true even in cases in which all of  the cancer was apparently removed at surgery.
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Heart disease and diabetes get all the attention, but expanding waistlines increase the risk for at least nine types of cancer, too. And with the obesity epidemic showing no signs of waning, specialists say they need to better understand how fat cells fuels cancer growth so they might fight back...
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NEW YORK  - Heavy alcohol use, diabetes,  and viral hepatitis combine synergistically to raise the risk  of developing liver cancer, according to a new report.
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NEW YORK  - Although obesity increases the risk of developing kidney cancer, patients with greater body mass index (BMI) seem to have less aggressive disease, according to researchers. BMI, the ratio of weight to height, is a common means of estimating whether someone is overweight or underweight.
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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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A new study is the first to link weight gain to specific types of breast cancer
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Â· Sequencing may help tackle obesity and cancerÂ· Patients could have tests before having children
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Women who are obese when they are diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer are at a greater risk of dying of their disease than women of normal weight.