Nutrition and Physical Activity: Uterus cancer risk linked to high BMI

Rates of endometrial cancer have increased over the last two decades in western countries because of the rise in obesity. This same rise in obesity is also driving an increase in the numbers of younger women under 40 affected by the disease according to Professor Andreas Obermair, director of research at the Queensland Centre for Gynaecological Research at the University of Queensland. It’s also the gynaecological issue most strongly linked to obesity, says Associate Professor Pamela Pollock of the School of Biomedical Sciences at Queensland University of Technology. The Age, 18 July 2017, Page 7

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