Vital signs: risks: women's cancer risk increases with height, study

A woman is ever greater, your risk for canceris the greater, a large-scale study.

Researchers at the University of Oxford in England analyzed data on more than 1.2 million British women for an average 9.4 years followed. There were more than 97,000 cases of cancer among women. The researchers found that for every four-inch increase in the height of more than 5 feet 1 inch, the risk that a woman by around 16 per cent increase would cancer. The study was published online July 21 in the Lancet Oncology.

The analysis covers the 17 types of cancer, but the relative risk increase is statistically significant for only 10 of them. The authors suggest that levels of growth hormone on the development of cancer could be involved in or higher people are simply vulnerable to mutations because their bodies include more cells.

The authors reviewed previous studies showing that a similar connection between height and an increased risk of cancer in Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America has been observed.

"There is interest in this study he us a clue about how cancer could develop,", said Jane Green, the lead author and an epidemiologist at Oxford. "It is the similarity to many different types of cancer in people with many different risk factors, and in many different populations, which makes us think that it is something very important in the development of cancer."

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