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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 11:48 AM
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Obese Men Benefit Less From Radiation for Prostate Cancer
http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2006/06/26/hscout533458.html

MONDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) -- Obese men with prostate cancer are less likely to benefit from radiation therapy than men who aren't overweight.

The finding may help doctors determine which patients -- particularly overweight ones -- need to have more aggressive treatment.

"Prostate cancer for most men is quiet. It's a cancer with a good outcome," said study lead author Sara Strom, associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. "Basically, what you would like in prostate cancer is to identify men who have more chances of having a bad outcome, so you can do something different with them. Obesity is something to take into consideration," she said.

But another expert cautioned restraint when interpreting the findings, which appear in the Aug. 1 issue of the journal Cancer.

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The2ndWheel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 11:55 AM
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1. All makes sense now
Edited on Mon Jun-26-06 11:56 AM by NoMoreMyths
We're fat because they're protecting us from the nuclear war and the radiation fallout they have planned for the future. Brilliant!

More for the zombie's to eat though. Figures, always has to be a drawback.
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