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Obesity link with cancer of the oesophagus

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Cancers of the food pipe in Britain have doubled in men over 25 years, figures from Cancer Research UK show.

Professor Janusz Jankowski, the Sir James Black Professor of Gastrointestinal Biology at Queen Mary, University of London, outlines the research.


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