British researchers link obesity to more cancers

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"Obesity can double the risk of several cancers, according to a study published on Friday that for the first time also links being overweight with a number of less common forms of the disease.

The analysis of 144 published studies incorporating some 282,000 men and women also showed that gender can make a difference in the relationship between obesity and some cancers, the researchers reported in the Lancet medical journal...

'This study has extended that further and reported specifically on 20 different types of cancer,' he said in a telephone interview. 'We showed an association with less common cancers that had not been shown before.'

These included blood cancers such as adult leukemia, multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma for both men and women, he said."

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