Breast Cancer (Risk Factors)

Obese Women Found More Prone to Cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, December 23rd, 1996

Obese women may be more prone to breast cancer because chemicals which trigger the disease are stored in their body fat, researchers said.

Scientists from Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom, carried out tests on breast fat taken from 40 healthy women undergoing reductive surgery. Their findings were published in the December issue of the journal Cancer Research. In more than one third of cases, the samples contained substances that damaged DNA, potentially predisposing the patients to cancer.

While the chemicals are yet to be identified, this is the first evidence that human fat can act as a reservoir for cancer-inducing agents.

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Source: Cancer Weekly (1996-12-23)

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