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Weight May Influence Success of Prostate Surgery
Author: admin Published date: 2010-01-16
 

Race and obesity may affect the outcome of people with diabetes, surgery for prostate cancer, a new study shows too.

We found that diabetes significantly associated with aggressive disease among obese white women and less aggressive course of disease for all other subsets of individuals united in our study,  said Dr. Stephen Freedland, an Associate Professor of Urology and Prostate pathology at Duke Center at Duke University, said in a Duke news release.


Freedland and colleagues review the medical records of 1,262 patients with prostate cancer who underwent radical prostatectomy - surgery for prostate cancer and some surrounding tissue removed.

The researchers found a link between diabetes and increased risk of cancer recurrence and a trend toward greater relapse in obese men aggressive white. In all other groups of men, was associated with lower risk of relapse associated with diabetes.


The study was published in the January issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
 



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