Obesity associated with worse outcomes after pancreatic cancer surgery
Monday, March 16, 2009 - 18:56
in Health & Medicine
Obese patients with a body mass index (BMI) of more than 35 appear more likely to have cancer that has spread to their lymph nodes, lower rates of survival and higher rates of recurrence following surgery for pancreatic cancer, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.