Another reason to hit the gym.
Individuals who are overweight in early adulthood have an increased risk of pancreatic cancer, while obesity in older age is associated with lower survival rates among patients with this difficult to treat malignancy, new research shows. Being overweight or obese at younger age had a stronger association with pancreatic cancer risk than did subsequent weight gain at an older age, lead author Dr. Donghui Li, from M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, told Reuters Health. “The second major finding,” Dr. Li added, “was that individuals who were overweight or obese from the ages of 20 to 49 years had an earlier onset of pancreatic cancer by 2 to 6 years.” – From Reuters