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Womb cancer affects more than 6,500 women each year in the UK. Because this kind of cancer tends to cause symptoms early on, it is often detected quickly. This means that treatment is more likely to be successful.
Most women who get womb cancer have been through the menopause. Being overweight or obese increases the risk of womb cancer - one in three cases in the UK are linked with this risk factor. A family history of bowel, stomach and ovarian cancer is also linked with an increased risk of womb cancer.
Women who have had children are less likely to get womb cancer than women who have not. Taking the contraceptive pill for a number of years also reduces the risk of getting womb cancer.
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Latest Womb cancer news from Cancer Research UK
- Press Release: First womb cancer genome scan reveals prostate cancer link
18 April 2011 - News story: Small study suggests contraceptive IUDs may delay womb cancer
30 September 2010 - Press Release: Womb cancer cases are highest for over three decades
22 July 2010 - Press Release: Doctors trial the coil to prevent womb cancer
10 June 2008 - Press Release: Cancer risks for overweight women
7 November 2007 - News story: Womb cancer patients could benefit from genetic screening
10 August 2006
- Press Release: Deprived cancer patients face fatal health problems
24 November 2010 - Press Release: Exercise reduces risk of developing womb cancer
29 September 2010 - News story: Aspirin may reduce cancer risk in people with Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colon Cancer (HNPCC)
22 September 2009 - News story: Cancer Research UK reassures women over acrylamide/cancer link
4 December 2007 - Press Release: Waist size can increase womb cancer risk
19 February 2007 - Press Release: Survival rates improving for cancer of the womb but its incidence climbs in the over 60s
7 February 2006
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