Adolescent's weight, socioeconomic status may affect cancer later in life

(Wiley) Overweight adolescents were twice as likely as their normal weight peers to later develop esophageal cancer in a recent study from Israel. The study, which is published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, also found that lower socioeconomic status as well as immigration from higher risk countries were important determinants of gastric cancer.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news