Being overweight as a young adult can increase the risk of developing 18 cancers – more than have been previously linked with the disease, researchers found.
Previous studies have shown that people who are overweight or obese have a heightened risk of a number of different cancers including breast, bowel, kidney and pancreatic.
Now excess weight has also been linked to leukaemia, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and among never-smokers, bladder and head and neck cancers in a large new study.
