Obesity linked to poor colon cancer prognosis
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 13:28
in Health & Medicine
Obese patients with colon cancer are at greater risk for death or recurrent disease compared to those who are within a normal weight range, according to a report in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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