BOSTON - Patients who are overweight when they're first diagnosed with cancer may be at higher risk of developing a second cancer. Investigators at the American Cancer Society looked at data on nearly ...

New research led by an Emory oncologist links obesity to rising cancers in young adults and shows that losing 10% of body ...

Researchers estimate that roughly 10 percent of new cancer diagnoses each year are linked to overweight and obesity, and sustained weight loss of more than 10 percent may lower that risk. The analysis ...

Obesity is now linked to at least 13 types of cancer, making it one of the most preventable cancer risk factors in the United States.

Women who put on weight and have a baby later in life may be significantly more likely to develop breast cancer, new research suggests. Experts in the United Kingdom discovered that a big weight gain ...

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Individuals transitioning from overweight to obese in adulthood may have a higher ovarian cancer risk, emphasizing the need for primary prevention strategies. The study identified three BMI trajectory ...

Being very overweight in your teens may double the risk of developing bowel cancer by the time you are middle aged, suggests research published online in the journal Gut. And a high level of an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Being overweight as a child, teenager and young adult has been linked to a higher risk of bowel cancer in adulthood, researchers ...

Obesity almost always increases cancer risk and worsens outcomes, but researchers led by scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report that overweight patients with advanced kidney cancer had ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Overweight and obese women are at increased risk of breast cancer and of being diagnosed with advanced disease, according to results of a large study published Wednesday in ...

A study published in Gut claims young overweight or obese men run a higher risk of developing severe liver disease or liver cancer later in life. Dr. Hannes Hagström, of the Stockholm, Sweden-based ...