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Obesity Growing as Cancer Risk for Women

By the Associated Press

Posted Sep 24, 2009 1:00 PM CDT

(AP) – Being fat could become the leading cause of cancer in women in Western countries in the coming years, say European researchers. Being overweight or obese accounts for up to 8% of cancers in Europe. That figure is poised to increase substantially as the obesity epidemic...   Read full story »

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