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ADVERTISEMENT Children with obesity who are diagnosed with cancer may have poorer health outcomes including a higher risk of death, according to a new study. Researchers from Canada analysed the data of more than 11,000 cancer patients aged between 2 and 19, of which 10.5 per cent were obese at the time of diagnosis. The conditions ranged from leukaemia, a cancer of the bone marrow, and lymphoma, a group of blood cancers, to other tumours. Obesity was linked to worse outcomes “across the entire
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