A link has now been established that people who are overweight or obese have a higher chance of getting cancer.
Fiji Cancer Society President Marilyn Curtis said they already have a major challenge with late diagnose for children who have cancer and secondly there is an increasing number of children who are either overweight or obese.
According to World Cancer Research Fund, more and more evidence is emerging that increased body weight is linked to cancer and the fund estimates that 30 to 40 percent of cancers, or three to four million cases of cancer every year, could be prevented by good nutrition, regular physical activity and avoiding obesity.
Curtis said parents need to be mindful of these issues.
However, cancer is slowly but surely claiming hundreds of lives in Fiji and the problems associated with it are immense, children suffering pain day in-day out, parents stressed over how they can help their children, late diagnosis and death.
Curtis said it is now a fact that a number of children have died from leukemia which is a cancer of the blood and is the most common cancer.
She also revealed that there are a number of people in their 20's who have been diagnosed with cancer and have either died or are in their last stages of cancer.
Obesity Raises Cancer Likelihood
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