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Obesity: One Of The Top Cancer Causes For Women
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by LarryDeezell | September 24, 2009 at 11:39 am
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The leading cause of cancer in Western countries has researchers from Europe say its obesity. Being fat and overweight has been accounted for 8 percent of Europe.
Experts said that figure is poised to increase substantially as the obesity epidemic continues, and as major causes of cancer, such as smoking and hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women, drop dramatically
Andrew Renehan, a cancer expert at the University of Manchester, has said "Obesity is catching up at a rate that makes it possible it could become the biggest attributable cause of cancer in women within the next decade," presenting his research to a joint meeting of the European Cancer Organisation and the European Society for Medical Oncology in Berlin on Thursday.
Renehan and colleagues designed a model to estimate the number of cancers that could be blamed on being fat in 30 European countries. In 2002, they calculated that 70,000 cases of cancer out of about 2 million cancer cases were attributable to being overweight or obese. By 2008, the number had jumped to at least 124,000
Menopausal women with Colorectal cancer, breast cancer or endomentrial cancer accounted for 65 percent of all cancers that have been linked to obesity. Studies have shown obesity has been the cause of 20 percent of cancers.
"Being overweight or obese is likely to be one of the biggest single causes of cancer after smoking," said Lucy Boyd, an epidemiologist at Cancer Research United Kingdom who was not linked to the research
It's shown to be connected to hormones, the reason why obesity would have connection with cancer risks. An increase of hormones become a factor while gaining weight.
"It is not likely (obesity) will have as severe an effect as smoking," said Jan Coebergh, a professor of cancer surveillance at Erasmus University, who has done similar research. Coebergh expected it would take a few decades before rounder Europeans would see a parallel rise in cancer, since the disease often takes years to develop
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Dr. Charles Martin (not verified)at 16:51 on September 24th, 2009
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