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Organ Size May Better Predict Cancer Risk in Obese Individuals than BMI
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Organ Size May Better Predict Cancer Risk in Obese Individuals than BMI
Scientists at City of Hope and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have identified a mechanism explaining how obesity increases cancer risk across multiple organs. Their research, published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, found that as body size increases, organs enlarge in size through hyperplasia, an increase in the number of cells in each organ. This increase in the number of cel…
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