BOSTON - Patients who are overweight when they're first diagnosed with cancer may be at higher risk of developing a second cancer. Investigators at the American Cancer Society looked at data on nearly ...

Individuals transitioning from overweight to obese in adulthood may have a higher ovarian cancer risk, emphasizing the need for primary prevention strategies. The study identified three BMI trajectory ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Breast cancer patients who are overweight have more aggressive disease and are likely to die sooner, U.S. researchers reported on Friday. A dangerous type of breast cancer, ...

Being very overweight in your teens may double the risk of developing bowel cancer by the time you are middle aged, suggests research published online in the journal Gut. And a high level of an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Being overweight as a child, teenager and young adult has been linked to a higher risk of bowel cancer in adulthood, researchers ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Overweight and obese women are at increased risk of breast cancer and of being diagnosed with advanced disease, according to results of a large study published Wednesday in ...

Eating red meat and smoking are among the lifestyle factors responsible for more than a quarter of healthy years lost to breast cancer, the largest study of its kind suggests.

A study published in Gut claims young overweight or obese men run a higher risk of developing severe liver disease or liver cancer later in life. Dr. Hannes Hagström, of the Stockholm, Sweden-based ...

More than a third of overweight or obese teenagers don't see themselves as being too heavy and think their weight is about right, according to a Cancer Research UK study published today in the ...