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Breast Cancer
Large study shows strong link between body mass and breast cancer
July 4th, 2002
by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Data from the American Cancer Society's Cancer Prevention Study II (CPS-II) show an increasing risk of breast cancer with increasing body fat (determined by body mass index measurements) in postmenopausal women. "Epidemiologic evidence suggests a positive association between body mass, adult height, and postmenopausal breast cancer," report J. M. Petrelli and associates at the American Cancer Society. "However, most studies have not been large enough to examine the association across a very wide range of body mass or height and postmenopausal breast cancer mortality." Petrelli and colleagues...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2002-07-04)
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