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Overweight Tied to Common Kidney Cancer


Overweight increases the risk of developing a common and virulent form of kidney cancer, a new study finds.31-01-2010

Researchers looked at 1,640 patients, average age 62, with kidney tumors and found that obese patients were 48 percent more likely to develop a clear-cell renal cell cancer (RCC) than those with a body-mass index(BMI) of less than 30, the cutoff for obesity. The odds of developing RCC increased by 4 percent for every extra BMI point.

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