Metabolic syndrome has been associated with an increased risk of various cancers. A multicenter study conducted in Italy and Switzerland on 3,869 cases of breast cancer in post-menopause reported a relative risk of 1.75 in women with the metabolic syndrome, confirming the results of other smaller epidemiological studies.
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