Published on: July 15th, 2008
Article by: Anthony Wilson
Women with large waist sizes may be up to 70% more likely to develop pancreatic cancer according to a new study published this month in the British Journal of Cancer.
The study, which was headed by Dr Juhua Luo of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, involved the study of almost 140,000 post-menopausal women from the Women’s Health Initiative. The women were initially free of pancreatic cancer and were followed for an average period of 7.7 years.
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Published on: January 28th, 2008
Article by: Anthony Wilson
Most people know that being overweight increases your risk of developing diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. What a lot of people don’t realise however is that being overweight also increases your risk of developing many forms of cancer.
The most comprehensive study on the environmental and lifestyle factors responsible for cancer is known as “The Cancer Prevention Study 2″. The study was conducted from 1982 to 1997 and followed 1.2 million American men and women
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Published on: January 22nd, 2008
Article by: Anthony Wilson
Women who are overweight have a greater risk of developing breast cancer according to a recent American study published in the British Journal of Cancer.
The study, conducted by several scientists of the Hormel Institute at the University of Minnesota found that people with lower levels of a protein hormone known as adiponectin or Acrp30 were much more likely to develop breast cancer.
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