Weight loss affects cancer occurrence

Scientists from the U.S., representing national medical center in California found a connection between weight loss and incidence of breast cancer, writes about this edition of the American Cancer Society. The researchers found that losing weight greatly can lower the risk of breast cancer in women.

Concluded that losing weight provides women’s health protection from breast cancer, scientists have made tracing the lives and health 61 335 women who were healthy by the beginning of the experiment. The observation lasted more than 11 years, during this time, more than three thousand (3061) women were diagnosed with breast cancer.

Correlating data about changes in the health status of participants with incidence of breast cancer, experts have noticed that women who managed to lose weight and get rid of 5% of the weight, reduce your risk of suffering from the dangerous cancer disease. In particular, their risk of breast cancer decreased by 12% (compared with women with stable high weight).

Simultaneously, the authors of the study found that there was another correlation. They found that women, “whose weight is increased, the risk of cancer increased by 54%”.

The data obtained by scientists, in their own estimation, indicate that programs weight loss have to provide therapy in case of breast cancer. We will remind that preliminary studies showed the relationship of excess weight with increased risk of other cancers – specifically with the development of malignant tumors of the stomach, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, ovarian, thyroid, brain. Data were published in TheNewEnglandJournalofMedicine.

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