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American Association for Cancer Research Links Cancer and Obesity

At the recent annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, the results of cancer research studying the influence of obesity and diabetes on certain specific cancers were presented. Some of the research results are presented below:

  • Women with diabetes were 1.5 times more likely to develop colon cancer versus those women without metabolic syndrome
  • Women with invasive breast cancer and high levels of C-peptide (marker of insulin secretion) have a death rate nearly three times...
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