Long-term obesity associated with poorer pancreatic cancer survival
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - 10:00
in Health & Medicine
New results from a study show that patients with a body mass index (BMI) in the obese range live on average two to three months less after a pancreatic cancer diagnosis, compared with healthy weight patients, even after adjusting for factors that are known to predict survival for patients with this disease, such as age and disease stage.