140 cancer patients in Seattle area warned of TB risk from health worker : seattletimes

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140 cancer patients in Seattle area warned of TB risk from health worker

140 cancer patients in Seattle area warned of TB risk from health worker

Cancer patients at the University of Washington Medical Center and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance may have been exposed to tuberculosis by a health worker diagnosed last month with an active infection.About 140 cancer patients may have been exposed to tuberculosis by a health-care worker who was diagnosed with an active case of the disease, officials with the University of Washington Medical Center and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance said Tuesday.Patients who had contact with the worker between February and July are being advised to be tested for the infection, which can cause serious illness in people with weakened immune systems."We believe the risk of this person passing TB to others is low," said Dr. Masa Narita, TB disease-control officer with Public Health – Seattle & King County.


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How much a decade of obesity raises your cancer risk

How much a decade of obesity raises your cancer risk

(CNN) The longer a woman is overweight or obese, the more her risk of cancer may increase along with the time.A new longitudinal study on postmenopausal women, published in the journal PLOS Medicine on Tuesday, reveals that the duration of having a high body mass index is linked to a higher risk of developing several types of cancer, from breast to endometrial.It's the first study to explore the relationship between overweight duration and cancer risk in a large cohort of women, said Melina Arnold, a scientist at the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer and lead author of the study."Given the result from previous studies supporting the overall link between obesity and cancer, our results are in line with what we know about this relationship," Arnold said.


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Obesity-related cancer risk increased by overweight duration

Obesity-related cancer risk increased by overweight duration

According to a longitudinal study published in PLOS Medicine, the longer the duration a woman is overweight or obese, the more at risk they become for several forms of cancer.Being overweight for long periods as an adult significantly increased the incidence of all obesity-related cancers by 7 percent.Being overweight for long periods as an adult significantly increased the incidence of all obesity-related cancers by 7 percent.High body mass index (BMI) has become the leading risk factor of disease burden in high-income countries.