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Obese and overweight men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer by biopsy are more likely than healthy weight men to actually have a more aggressive case of the disease than the biopsy results would indicate, as per a research studyled by a Duke University Medical Center researcher. The finding suggests that misleading biopsy results may be causing a number of obese and overweight men to receive inadequate or inappropriate therapy that is not aggressive enough to combat the true nature of their disease, said study leader Stephen Freedland, M.D., an assistant professor in the Division of Urology and the Duke Prostate Center……..

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Obese and overweight men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer by biopsy are more likely than healthy weight men to actually have a more aggressive case of the disease than the biopsy results would indicate, as per a research studyled by a Duke University Medical Center researcher. The finding suggests that misleading biopsy results may be causing a number of obese and overweight men to receive inadequate or inappropriate therapy that is not aggressive enough to combat the true nature of their disease, said study leader Stephen Freedland, M.D., an assistant professor in the Division of Urology and the Duke Prostate Center……..

Original post by Health news from medicineworld.org