Obesity in adolescence linked to bowel cancer risk

26 May 2015


A study published in the journal Gut has revealed that overweight teenagers are twice as likely to develop bowel cancer in later life than their peers who were not overweight in their teens. The risk was even higher in obese teens. BBC News


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