Cancer-obesity Link Could Aid Prevention Efforts

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 20:21 in Health & Medicine

A new link between body fat and cancer underscores obesity's health risk and could lead to new cancer treatment and prevention strategies. Scientists identified the connection between obesity and colon cancer, the third-leading killer of Americans, in part by examining tissue hormones.

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