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Keeping Fit May Boost Survival With Endometrial Cancer
"This study provides new evidence that a healthy body-mass index and higher physical activity levels are associated with better endometrial cancer survival," lead researcher Hannah Arem, a doctoral candidate at the School of Public Health and a pre-doctoral research fellow in the division of cancer epidemiology and genetics at the U.S. National Cancer Institute, said in a Yale news release.
"While all women are encouraged to maintain a healthy body weight and to exercise, women at high risk of endometrial cancer may be particularly motivated by these findings," Arem added.
The study was published online Jan. 7 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
About 42,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with endometrial cancer each year, and nearly 8,000 die from it.
While the study found an associations between body weight and physical activity with death risk in women with endometrial cancer, it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.
SOURCE: Yale School of Public Health, news release, Jan. 7, 2013
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Published: January 2013
