Breast cancer survivors who gain weight may increase their risk of dying of the disease, reported scientists from the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting on Tuesday.
Previous studies have tied excess weight to a heightened cancer risk; government researchers found recently that women who gain weight are more likely to develop breast cancer than those who maintain their weight throughout adulthood. Those findings included postmenopausal women who did not take hormone replacement therapy, which has been associated itself with increased risk.
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