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“This could inform specific prevention strategies.”
The study, published in the journal BMC Medicine, looked at 125,915 people from 45 studies on bowel cancer.
This type of cancer, which is strongly linked to obesity, affects more than 42,000 people every year, and causes more than 16,000 deaths.
The research is one of the largest genetic studies to look at men and women’s weight and bowel cancer risk.
Bowel cancer: A woman s weight distribution may affect her risk (Image: Getty Images)
Natasha Paton, health information manager at Cancer Research UK, added: “It’s well established that keeping a healthy weight affects many types of cancer.