Exercise May Lower Risk of Ovarian Cancer

'Even a modest amount of exercise may lower the risk of developing – and dying from – ovarian cancer, two new studies show.

Ovarian cancer is the most deadly female cancer. Although it accounts for only 3 percent of cancers among women, it causes more deaths than any other malignancy of the female reproductive tract.

But knowing how much exercise is enough to prevent health problems is confusing, but two recent studies led by the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y. show that years of physical inactivity prior to ovarian cancer diagnosis is associated with increased risk.'

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