BOSTON - Patients who are overweight when they're first diagnosed with cancer may be at higher risk of developing a second cancer. Investigators at the American Cancer Society looked at data on nearly ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Overweight and obese women are at increased risk of breast cancer and of being diagnosed with advanced disease, according to results of a large study published Wednesday in ...

Barriers to screening and treatment of breast cancer: Data analysis from Edgecombe County. Background: Excess weight is one of the few modifiable risk factors for incident breast cancer. Many programs ...

The risks of being obese are fairly well documented, and while it's true that a person who is significantly overweight can better their odds of living longer with exercise, avoiding tobacco, and other ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Breast cancer patients who are overweight have more aggressive disease and are likely to die sooner, U.S. researchers reported on Friday. A dangerous type of breast cancer, ...

Overweight and obesity are contributing to rising death rates from bowel cancer among people aged 25-49 years in the European Union (EU) and the UK, although death rates from this type of cancer are ...

You can take actions to help protect yourself from cancer—and your state can too with systematic interventions, such as policies, programs, and educational campaigns, to reduce cancer risk factors and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers observed a favorable association between BMI in the overweight range and 5-year OS and PFS. Having ...

Just 10 minutes of exercise may help slow bowel cancer growth and improve DNA repair, according to new research—highlighting ...

Obesity has been proven to be a major risk factor for several cancers. Weight gain during adulthood has been tied to increased cancer risk, but there is a little body of knowledge that has identified ...

Being overweight might improve overall survival and progression-free survival for patients with head and neck cancer undergoing chemoradiotherapy, recent research showed. Patients with head and neck ...