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Could your height increase cancer risk?

Science - Health

A recent study from the United Kingdom found that the taller a woman is in height the higher chance she has of getting ten common types of cancer, including breast and kidney cancer.


The study from researchers at the University of Oxford examined over 1.2 million British women.

The women ranged in height from less than 155 centimeters (about five feet, one inch) to over 175 centimeters (about five feet, nine inches). Their average age was 56 years.

Their results showed that for every 10 centimeter (about four inches) increase in height, a woman's risk of cancer increases by 16%.

The ten types of cancer associated with this study are: breast, bowel (intestines), central nervous system lymphoma, colon, uterus, kidney, malignant melanoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia, rectum.

The results of the study were published on Thursday, July 21, 2011, in the journal The Lancet Oncology.

The authors are Drs. Jane Green, Benjamin J Cairns, Delphine Casabonne, F. Lucy Wright, Gillian Reeves, Valerie Beral, and other colleagues

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