In what may come as a bit of a surprise, a new study found that overweight colon cancer patients tended to have better survival than their normal-weight peers.

However, obesity increases the risk of having polyps and colon cancer to begin with. So although this is a little surprising, don’t bank on being overweight as any form of positive.

Read the news summary here.

Source: A Little Excess Weight May Boost Colon Cancer Survival –Doctors Lounge