A Greater Risk for Cancer Haunt The Tall Women

Webpostline.com - Smoking, overweight, and bad diet are the risk factors that actually can be controlled by taking several ways for healthy life. However, there is a finding revealed that tall women at greater risk for cancer.


More than 144,000 women been observed by the researchers were found postmenopausal women who have a tall posture were at a higher risk for multiple cancer such as plasma cell cancer and cancer of breast, kidney, colon.

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A long-running study at the Women's Health Initiative shows that a pool of women where they are regularly surveyed and examined, approximately 20,928 postmenopausal women selected and they were between 50 to 79 years old had been diagnosed with invasive cancers during a follow-up period for 12 years.

Based on the calculating of researchers found that for about ten centimeters of height, had increased by 13 percent of a woman's overall cancer risk. Specifically, explicate there was increased risk of cancers about 23 to 29 percent for developing cancers of the blood, kidney, thyroid and rectum for every four inches of height raise. In fact, there was a 13 percent or more, likely have a chance of developing the diseases such as cancers of the breast, colon, ovary, endometrium and disease of melanoma.

All findings are increasingly reinforced by a previous study stated the tall women probably at greater risk for cancer. While a study in 2012 has shown the risk for ovarian   increases by 7 percent for every two inches of height.

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Although, the study did not discuss in particular regard to the cause of this effect. A speculation from the senior author Dr. Thomas Rohan, chair of the department of epidemiology and public health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, which was published to CBSNews has explicated two factors lead at play.

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However, Rohan avow his study was not designed to find clinical recommendations a doctor, which can provide  to lower risk of cancer for tall women.

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Nonetheless, remain to maintain a healthy lifestyle is the key to lessen cancer risk, he said.

The study was published July 25 in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.