Obesity Worsens Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer is more aggressive and harder to treat in obese men, two studies find.The finding could help explain why prostate cancer is a special problem for black men, who are more likely to be obese than white men, says Dr. Stephen J. Freedland, lead author of one of two studies reporting essentially similar findings in the Dec. 22 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

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