Losing a significant amount of weight is often seen as a healthful change – but researchers have warned it could be the opposite.
Those who lose more than a tenth of their body weight are 50 per cent more likely than others to die from bowel cancer, a German study has found.
Patients with the disease who lose weight also have a 33 per cent greater chance of their cancer returning.
However, the scientists, from The German Cancer Research Centre, stressed that their findings don’t mean gaining weight prevents bowel cancer.
Rather, that significant weight loss in the months or years prior to diagnosis
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