Higher temperatures spurred by climate change could be increasing women's risk of cancer, a new study says.
Increasing heat in the Middle East and North Africa has made breast, ovarian, uterine and cervical cancers more common and more deadly, researchers reported Monday in the journal Frontiers in Public Health.
For each additional degree Celsius, cases and deaths of female cancers increased, researchers found.
"As temperatures rise, cancer mortality among women also rises -- particularly for ovarian and breast cancers," lead investigator Wafa Abu El Kheir-Mataria said in a news release. She's a global health governance and health equity researcher at the American University in Cairo.
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