Obesity to eclipse smoking as biggest cause of cancer in UK women by 2043

Experts want action to tackle 'huge public health threat' after new projections

Obesity is on track to overtake smoking as the single biggest cause of preventable cancer in British women within 25 years, according to a Cancer Research UK report.

The charity expects that within 17 years around 23,000 cases of cancers in women (9% of the total) could be caused by excess weight and about 25,000 (10%) by smoking.