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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