Short Women Have Lower Risk Of Cancer  As a tall-ish person, let
me be the first to say "SERIOUSLY?"  And then answer my own
question with a "Yes."  A new study published in The Lancet
Oncology found that the shorter women are, the lower their
cancer risk. Or, vice versa, the taller women are the greater
their risk.  In fact, British researchers determined that the
risk of cancer in women jumps 16 percent with each 4-inch
increase in height.  To determine whether stature had anything
to do with cancer risk, the researchers, led by Dr. Jane Green
of Oxford University, followed 1.3 million middle-aged women
from the United Kingdom for 10 years.  Even after accounting for
the women's different lifestyles and socio-economic backgrounds,
there was still a significant jump in cancer risk associated
with increasing stature. And it wasn't just one kind of cancer.
Taller women were more likely to develop cancers of the breast,
ovary, uterus and bowel, as well as leukemia and melanoma.  So
if you're a tall woman, just