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Colon Cancer Targets Obese Women

  • November 02, 2004

If you've read this blog for a while, you know obesity -- through an overproduction of insulin -- is a precursor to various cancers. That's why I was alarmed about a warning that obese women are more prone to suffer from colon cancer than obese males. In a study of some 2,300 patients, including 1,250 men, a larger body mass index (BMI) was associated with a higher risk of significant colorectal neoplasia, but only statistically connected to women, not men. Researchers divided...