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Medicine’s Nathan Berger leads study on the impact of childhood obesity on cancer risk in young adults

Childhood obesity may be driving more cancers in young adults

UPINathan Berger, the Hanna-Payne Professor of Experimental Medicine and director of the Center for Science, Health and Society, led a study that found that childhood obesity may increase the risk of young adults getting cancers that had previously been mostly reported in people over 50.