Increased body mass index as a risk factor in localized prostate cancer treated by radical prostatectomy.

CONCLUSIONS: Higher BMI was associated with higher prostate weight and PSA, as well as with higher pT stage and pathologic GS in men undergoing radical prostatectomy, providing further evidence that obese men are more likely to have aggressive cancer. BMI thus constitutes an additional risk factor besides PSA.
PMID: 26822075 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Urologic Oncology - January 25, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Goris Gbenou MC, Peltier A, Schulman CC, Velthoven RV Tags: Urol Oncol Source Type: research