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Turns out, belly fat is much bigger a concern than just regular fitness for women. According to a Washington University School of Medicine-study, belly fat affects the odds of women surviving kidney cancer but not men. Half of female kidney cancer patients with substantial abdominal fat at the time of diagnosis died within 3 1/2 years, while more than half of women with little belly fat were still alive 10 years later, the researchers found. For men, the amount of abdominal fat appeared to make no difference in how long they survived.