Obese Men Has Increased Risk of Dying from Prostate-Cancer
March 17, 2007 by Gloria Gamat
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
According to a study by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research, obese men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer have more than two-and-a-half times the risk of dying from the disease as compared to men of normal weight at the time of diagnosis.
According to senior author of the study to be published in the March 15 print edition of the journal Cancer:
“If a man is obese at the time of diagnosis, he faces a 2.6-fold greater risk of dying as compared to a normal-weight man with the same diagnostic profile, regardless of whether he has a radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy, whether or not he gets androgen-deprivation therapy, whether he has low- or high-grade disease and whether he has localized, regional or distant disease.”
The study is the first long-term, population-based study of prostate-cancer patients who have undergone a variety of treatments. The mechanisms behind such an association are believed to involve both steroid hormones and inflammation.
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