It said a steep rise in obesity in the past 40 years may have increased cancer risk in younger generations. "Most cancers occur in older adults, which means that as the young people in our study age, the burden of obesity-related cancer cases and deaths are likely to increase even more. OTHER FACTORSBut the researchers could not explain why the rates of only half of the 12 obesity-related cancers had increased. Meanwhile, they found cancers linked to smoking and infections were declining in younger age groups. Not everyone who gets these cancers will be overweight and everyone who is obese will not necessarily get these cancers.

Source: Daily Nation February 04, 2019 16:18 UTC