Increasingly Fat Woman, Ovarian Cancer Risk Higher

Jakarta , There is a series of increasingly severe risk of cancer if the patient is obese or excess body fat , the breast, colon , endometrium ( lining of the uterus ) , kidney , and pancreas . One more cancers in this list , namely ovarian cancer ovarian alias .
For a study found the higher a woman's weight , the greater the risk of ovarian cancer he has. Even according to the researchers , this cancer may also be associated with a person's height , although not as strong relevance weight , especially body fat .
As quoted by NBC News, Monday ( 03/17/2014 ) , a team of researchers from the AICR get this conclusion after reviewing 25 studies involving a total of 4 million female participants , and 16,000 of them suffered from ovarian cancer .
" This could be an important finding because it shows how to keep a woman reduce her chances of developing ovarian cancer . Having previously not much we know about how to prevent this cancer , " said Dr. . Rutgers Elisa Bandera of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey , one of the experts who helped write the report of this study .
Although the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute says obesity as one of the things that allegedly can cause ovarian cancer , AICR asserted that the sufferer must not obese ( BMI above 30 ) . They added that women who are overweight ( BMI from 28 ) is already at high risk .
One reason researchers alleged to be behind the fat ovarian cancer risk is the fat cells to release estrogen , a hormone that helps nourish cancer . Moreover, those who are overweight or obese often experience high levels of inflammation in the body , which in turn gave him the risk of heart disease and cancer as well .
In addition , fat cells can also produce other hormones such as leptin that can lead to uncontrolled cell growth that cancer arises . Researchers did not deny there may be other things that cause this , such as genetic conditions .