Key points from article :
Time spent overweight or obese seems to have a compounding effect on cancer risk.
Each decade of being overweight linked to 7% increased risk of obesity-related cancer.
Womb cancer most strongly linked to obesity.
The more overweight the greater the link especially for endometrial cancer.
Study of more than 70,000 women over 12 years.
Also used women’s own estimates of their weight at ages 18, 35 and 50.
The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Public Library of Science (PLOS).
