Heavier and taller children are more likely to develop kidney cancer as adults than their average-sized peers warn researchers. We know that overweight in adulthood is associated with an increased risk of renal cell carcinoma (RCC). We also know that cancers take many years to develop. We therefore had a theory that already being overweight in childhood would increase the risk of RCC later in life said lead author Britt Wang Jensen from Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital in Denmark. RCC is the most common form of kidney cancer found in adults. For the study the researchers included 301422 individuals from
