Thursday, March 3, 2011

Being Too Fat Raises Risk of Deadly Breast Cancer

From Reuters Health News...

Being too fat raises risk of deadly breast cancer

By Julie Steenhuysen

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Scientists know that being overweight increases the risk of breast cancers fed by estrogen, but being too fat may also increase the risk of triple-negative breast cancers, a less common and far more deadly type, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

They said women who are overweight had a 35-percent higher risk of developing triple-negative breast cancers, an aggressive form of cancer that affects 10 to 20 percent of cases.

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