Obesity and Overeating During Menopause Together Promote Breast Tumor Growth and Progression

More "Why don't you care about your own breasts, fatso?" news.

At least there is some good to this.

Obese women might be able to eliminate their increased risk for postmenopausal breast cancer by taking measures during perimenopause to prevent weight gain and to therapeutically control the metabolic effects of their obesity, according to the results of a preclinical study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

"Obese postmenopausal women have increased risk for breast cancer and poorer clinical outcomes compared with postmenopausal women who are lean," said Paul S. MacLean, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Health and Wellness Center in Aurora, Colo.

The good?

We can stop paying for the increased risk because it is a choice.

Let the fat woman assume it - financially and anatomically.