Suffering obesity and or diabetes mellitus type 2 could mean a high risk of developing breast cancer in postmenopausal women, according to a study released recently in Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention.
The study led by A.L. Ronco of Pereira Rossell Women?s Hospital in Montevideo, Uruguay and colleagues, showed that women who were obese and diagnosed with diabetes were more than 9 times as likely as those who did not have either medical condition to develop breast cancer.
Breast cancer is diagnosed in more than 220,000 American women each year and the disease and its complications kill nearly 40,000 annually in the US, according to the National Cancer Institute.
According to the authors, obese postmenopausal women are at higher risk of developing breast cancer in particular if they have an android-type pattern of adiposity, which is in turn associated to elevated risks of diabetes mellitus,?hypertension?and cardiovascular disease.The study involved 912 Uruguayan women of ages between 23 to 69 years of whom 367 were newly diagnosed with breast cancer and 545 were age-matched controls who did not have the cancer. The case-control study was ?conducted between between 2004-2009 at the researchers? Oncology Unit.
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