HealthDay News: Men who are obese when they’re diagnosed with prostate cancer are 2.6 times more likely to die of the disease than normal-weight men, new findings suggest.
If you liked my post, feel free to subscribe to my rss feeds“I was very surprised by the findings. We found the prostate-cancer-specific mortality risk associated with obesity was similar regardless of treatment, disease grade or disease stage at the time of diagnosis,” senior author Alan Kristal, associate head of the Cancer Prevention Program in Hutchinson’s Public Health Sciences Division, said in a prepared statement.
“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 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,” Kristal said.
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