This Condition INCREASES Secondary Cancer Risk 18%?!
Dear Reader,
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women.
The good news is that the average 5-year survival rate for women with non-metastatic breast cancer is 90 percent.
If you’re a breast cancer survivor, you want to do everything in your power to be in that 90 percent.
Researchers have identified a risk factor that dramatically increases your risk of developing a second primary cancer.
Here’s what you need to know to lower your risk….
Cancer and obesity often go hand in hand.
Research studies have shown that obesity increases your risk of more than a dozen different types of cancer.
And more than 55 percent of all cancers diagnosed in women occur in those who are overweight or obese.
And as it turns out, it’s bad news for breast cancer survivors as well.
In a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, researchers followed over 6,000 breast cancer survivors.
They found that women who were overweight or obese when they were diagnosed with breast cancer had an 18 percent increased risk of developing a second cancer compared to the general population.
Not surprisingly, the increase was greater for a second breast cancer, and for obesity-related cancers.
The bottom line is that extra weight is more than a cosmetic issue. Fat sets of a domino effect of problems in your body that increase your risk of every major disease. (It can even negatively impact your brain, click here and read about its connection to Alzheimer’s.)
If you want to control your health future, then start by controlling your weight.
P.S. The 13 cancers that have been associated with obesity and overweight include the following:
- Meningioma
- Multiple myeloma
- Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus
- Thyroid cancer
- Postmenopausal breast cancer
- Gallbladder cancer
- Stomach cancer
- Liver cancer
- Pancreatic cancer
- Kidney cancer
- Ovarian cancer
- Uterine cancer
- Colorectal cancer
