as biggest cause of cancer
Obesity will overtake smoking as the biggest preventable cause of cancer for UK women in 25 years’ time, Cancer Research UK has warned. In a report the charity says that many of the most common obesity-related cancers affect mainly women, including breast cancer. The charity predicts that by 2035, 10 per cent of cancers in women will be caused by smoking and 9 per cent by excess weight. By 2043 excess weight will have overtaken cigarettes.
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