Overweight men face higher risk of dying of prostate cancer

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 16:43 in Health & Medicine

(PhysOrg.com) -- Prostate cancer patients who are overweight and have elevated insulin levels are much more likely to die of the cancer than other patients, say researchers at Harvard University and McGill University. Their research is published in the October issue of The Lancet Oncology.

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