Obese women in Canada are less likely to be screened for cervical cancer

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 05:28 in Health & Medicine

Research in the United States has shown that obese people are less likely than their normal-weight peers to undergo screening for breast, colon and cervical cancer. Raj Padwal, Rebecca Mitchell and Scott Klarenbach, from the University of Alberta's Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, have undertaken a study to see if this trend is also true in Canada.

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