Specifically, these women had an increased risk of developing breast cancer, ovarian cancer and multiple myeloma, a type of cancer that affects the body’s plasma (blood) cells. Risk for multiple myeloma, breast, and ovarian cancers were specifically elevated.
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New York, July 14 (IANS) Spending more leisure time sitting is linked with 10 percent higher risk of cancer, including breast and ovarian cancers in women, says a study led by an Indian-origin researcher. There are a few obvious reasons right away – on one hand most of us work in an office, on the other technology has rapidly progressed (and keeps progressing every few months), offering an infinity or leisure time activities tied to computers, game consoles and TVs.
On top of everything, many previous studies have suggested that stringing together a routine of daily physical exercises could potentially help prevent the development of cancer.
After adjusting for physical activity, BMI and other factors, they found that a leisure-time siting modestly increased women’s risk of developing cancer. No association was found between sitting time and cancer risk in men.
Researchers from the American Cancer Society find that more leisure time sitting was associated with a higher total cancer risk in women.
Surprisingly, the study that appeared in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention, found no association between sitting time and cancer risk in men.
From1992 and 2009, 12,236 women and 18,555 men were diagnosed with cancer.
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“Further research is warranted to better understand the differences in associations between men and women”, researchers concluded in their study. Once again, among men no association between sitting time and site-specific cancers was found. The findings in this study support guidelines of the American Cancer Society for cancer prevention for women which suggest decreasing sitting time when possible.
