Thursday, August 09, 2007

Modern life pushes up cancer rate

'Nuff said.
"Too much food, alcohol and sun has fuelled a massive rise in some forms of cancer, warn UK experts…

Rates of kidney cancer and womb cancer - both linked to obesity - have also shown rapid increases over the past 10 years.

Overweight and obese women are twice as likely to develop womb cancer as women of a healthy weight due to higher than normal exposure to the hormone oestrogen…

‘Obesity is linked with a number of cancers - post-menopausal breast cancer and endometrial cancer are the main ones in women and bowel cancer in men - and that's something we've known for a while.’"

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