Thursday, July 21, 2011
The lower the woman the lower the risk of cancer
According to a British study, if your mum is short and you aren't, her risk of cancer is smaller than yours.
A new study published in The Lancet Oncology found that the shorter women are, the lower their cancer risk. Or, vice versa, the taller women are the greater their risk.But her chances of being run over by a bus are greater.
In fact, British researchers determined that the risk of cancer in women jumps 16 percent with each 4-inch increase in height.
To determine whether stature had anything to do with cancer risk, the researchers, led by Dr. Jane Green of Oxford University, followed 1.3 million middle-aged women from the United Kingdom for 10 years.
Even after accounting for the women’s different lifestyles and socio-economic backgrounds, there was still a significant jump in cancer risk associated with increasing stature. And it wasn’t just one kind of cancer. Taller women were more likely to develop cancers of the breast, ovary, uterus and bowel, as well as leukemia and melanoma.
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