More than 22,000 cases of cancer every year could be prevented if the whole population was a healthy weight, researchers said.
They said that 63% of the UK population was overweight or obese – one of the highest levels in Europe – and that body weight increased the risk of cancers of the pancreas, breast, bowel, oesophagus, kidney, womb and gall bladder.
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