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Behavioral interventions may lower risk for some obesity-related cancers, according to data presented at the International Congress on Obesity. “The numbers of obesity-related cancers are rising each year, and prevention strategies should be considered,” Matthew Harris, MD, PhD, research representative at University of Manchester in the U.K., told Healio. “Currently we do not have the evidence to
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