A Woman's Height Could Be Tied to Cancer
A Woman's Height Could Be Tied to Cancer
Your height may determine your risk for cancer.
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" How tall you are could determine your risk for cancer a new study out of the UK find for every four inch increase in height. Starting from -- I eat a woman's risk for all cancers went up 16%. The researchers used data collected from over one million women between 1996. And 2001. Researchers say they don't know how -- it is related to cancer but they say could be a mechanism that is triggered early in life while people are growing being -- has been linked to lower risk for some conditions like heart disease expert at that point of this study was to learn how cancers developed not to worry people who shop and -- faction."
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