Tag: cancer
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Prostate Cancer: Obese men are more likely to have worse pathology reports than expected
Dr. Koop – Biopsy Underestimates Prostate Cancer in Overweight Men: Researchers compared the biopsy grade to the cancer grade following radical prostatectomy, which is the removal of the prostate. In 1,113 men who underwent radical prostatectomy between 1996 and 2005 within the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital database, 299 men, or 27 percent, had…