Leptin, Obesity, and Prostate Cancer

Tuesday, August 18, 2009  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

Duke University researchers have demonstrated that obesity in and of itself is a risk factor for aggressive prostate cancer.  The study involved 1415 men who had undergone radical prostatectomy as prostate cancer treatment (about 50/50 white and black men).  Race was not a factor in who was likely to continue disease progression based on the prostate cancer spreading aggressively, but obesity was.

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