Obesity In Prostate Cancer Patients Predicts Cancer Recurrence And Progression
Obesity in a patient is an independent predictor of whether localized prostate cancer will progress following radiotherapy treatment, say researchers at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.In a study reported in the Aug. 1 issue of the journal Cancer, researchers found that moderately and severely obese patients had a 99 percent greater risk of developing biochemical failure (an early marker of cancer progression) than other patients. [click link for full article]

Obesity Is Associated With Less Favorable Outcome After Radiation Therapy For Prostate Cancer
Obese men with prostate cancer are at higher risk for treatment failure after primary radiation therapy, according to a new study. Published in the August 1, 2006 issue of CANCER (http://www.interscience.wiley. [click link for full article]

Prostate patients ‘have needless surgery’
Radical treatment for prostate cancer is a waste of time for most men, scientists have claimed.They said surgery or radiotherapy does little to improve survival chances but can lead to impotence and incontinence. Read the facts on prostate cancer here

Obesity raises recurrence risk of prostate cancer (Reuters)
Reuters - Obese men have an increased risk of cancer recurrence after undergoing treatment with radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer, new research shows.

Abdominal Obesity May Be Associated With Colon Cancer Risk
Waist circumference and a person's waist-to-hip ratio were linked to an increased risk of colon cancer, a new study suggests.Tobias Pischon, M.D., of the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Potsdam, and colleagues examined the link between abdominal obesity and colon and rectal cancer in 368,277 subjects from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. The subjects were followed for an average of 6.1 years. [click link for full article]