Obese Women More Likely to Get Colorectal Cancer
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Obese women face a greater risk of colorectal cancer than obese men, says a Stony Brook University study presented Nov. 1 at the American College of Gastroenterology annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.
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Diets rich in calcium reduce women's risk of colorectal cancer, and women who also take calcium supplements can cut their risk even more, researchers said on Thursday.
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Obese pregnant women may have  an increased risk of losing their baby relatively late in  pregnancy, and black women appear particularly at risk, a large  study suggests.
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NEW YORK OCT 18, 2004  - Children who are overweight appear to have an increased risk of cancer in later life, according to the results of a study published in the November 1st issue of the International Journal of Cancer.
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Women who are overweight or obese are more likely to get pregnant while taking birth control pills than women of normal weight are, new research finds.
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Women who are obese get more aggressive types of ovarian cancer, scientists find.
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Women who are obese are more likely to experience brain tissue loss, an early sign of dementia, researchers find.
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Obese women with breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than those of a normal weight, researchers said today. US researchers looked at information
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Obese people, especially women, are more likely to suffer complications following hip replacement surgery, Swiss researchers say.
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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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A study finds higher instances of breast cancer among women who were chubby babies, and also among those who were long and lean as teenagers.
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Even if they remained obese, women who survived breast cancer cut their risk of dying from a recurrence of the disease if they had a diet rich in fruits and vegetables and exercised moderately, a study found on Friday.
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Women who are overweight or obese have a much higher chance of becoming pregnant because their Pill has failed, researchers have found.
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NEW YORK  - Long-term insulin use by  patients with type 2 diabetes is associated with an increased  risk of colon cancer, according to research reported in the  medical journal Gastroenterology.
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Overweight and obese older women have an increased risk of leukemia, says a University of Minnesota study. It found that older women who are overweight or obese could be more than twice as likely as normal
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Women who are consistently overweight or obese during adulthood may be at increased risk for a decrease in the volume of certain areas of their brain -- according to a study from Sweden
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Heart disease and diabetes get all the attention, but expanding waistlines also increase the risk for at least nine types of cancer, US research suggests.