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Almost half of women with endometrial cancer or hyperplasia do not know that obesity affects their cancer risk

Abstract

• A group of low income, largely Hispanic women demonstrated poor knowledge of the adverse reproductive effects of obesity. • 53.5% of endometrial cancer/hyperplasia patients identified obesity as a risk factor for endometrial cancer. • 32% of control patients identified obesity as a risk factor for endometrial cancer. • Physician discussion of overweight/obese diagnosis was predictive of this knowledge.

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