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The Obesity/Prostate Cancer Link: More Evidence

  • August 17, 2005

Some four years ago, I told you about a link between the rising rate of obesity among black men and the incidence of advanced prostate cancer at a younger age. Seems a larger body mass index may have even more to do with prostate cancer than the experts thought.Although body mass index (BMI) wasn't immediately linked to a man's odds of prostate cancer, that higher BMI number came into play after taking prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels, digital rectal examination findings, prostate size...