Weight and insuline linked to prostate cancer death
October 6th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer risksNew research, funded in part by the Canadian Cancer Society, shows that men suffering from prostate cancer are up to 2 1/2 times more at risk of dying from the disease if they are overweight or obese. The men who participated in the study had been weighed prior to being diagnosed with prostate cancer.
This study strongly confirms those earlier findings and in fact points to a leading culprit which appears to be an excess secretion of insulin in these patients. Excess production of insulin - or hyperinsulinemia - is one of the many metabolic changes that occur in overweight and obese people.
Up until now, oncologists and researchers felt that the only hormones relevant to prostate cancer were the male hormones known as androgens. These results suggest that the insulin family may also be involved in the disease