Race, obesity affect outcomes among diabetics following prostatectomy

Monday, January 11, 2010 - 12:00 in Health & Medicine

Obese white men who have both diabetes and prostate cancer have significantly worse outcomes following radical prostatectomy than do men without diabetes who undergo the same procedure, according to research from Duke University Medical Center appearing in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

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