Researchers Find Link Between Height and Cancer

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STOCKHOLM—Watch out long-legged Scandinavians—a large study shows taller people may have an increased risk of developing cancer than their shorter peers.
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and University of Stockholm examined 5.5 million Swedish men and women and found a correlation between height and cancer. For every 10 centimeters (4 inches) of height, a woman’s risk of developing cancer increased by 18% and a man’s by 11%, the study showed.

Taller women had a 20% greater risk of developing breast cancer than shorter women and both men and women’s risk of suffering melanoma, a type of skin cancer, increased by about 30% for every 10 centimeters of height.