Study found prostate cancer mortality higher in overweight men
October 27th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer, prostate cancer risksSeveral past studies have suggested that men who are overweight, as measured by body-mass index (BMI), have an increased risk of prostate-cancer progression and disease-related death.
Recently, a research team from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) found that excess bodyweight and high plasma concentrations of C-peptide (a protein that reflects the amount of insulin secretion) in men who are subsequently diagnosed with prostate cancer are reliable indicators that they are more likely to die from their disease than those with lower levels.
This substudy of the Physician’s Health Study is found in an article published in the November edition of The Lancet Oncology.