Obesity and survival after radical prostatectomy: A 10‐year prospective cohort study

Obesity and survival after radical prostatectomy: A 10‐year prospective cohort study

BACKGROUND. Obesity and prostate cancer are among the most common health problems affecting American men today. The authors' goal was to assess the impact of obesity on clinical and pathologic features of prostate cancer and long‐term outcomes. METHODS. The authors performed a prospective cohor...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cancer 2006-08, Vol.107 (3), p.521-529
Hauptverfasser: Siddiqui, Sameer A., Inman, Brant A., Sengupta, Shomik, Slezak, Jeffrey M., Bergstralh, Eric J., Leibovich, Bradley C., Zincke, Horst, Blute, Michael L.
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Sprache:eng
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Age Factors
Biological and medical sciences
BMI
Body Mass Index
Cohort Studies
Comorbidity
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Metabolic diseases
Middle Aged
Neoplasm Staging
Obesity
Obesity - epidemiology
Patient Selection
Prospective Studies
Prostate - pathology
prostate cancer
Prostate-Specific Antigen - blood
Prostatectomy
Prostatic Neoplasms - epidemiology
Prostatic Neoplasms - mortality
Prostatic Neoplasms - surgery
radical prostatectomy
Risk Factors
Survival
Survival Analysis
Treatment Outcome
Tumors
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Zusammenfassung:BACKGROUND. Obesity and prostate cancer are among the most common health problems affecting American men today. The authors' goal was to assess the impact of obesity on clinical and pathologic features of prostate cancer and long‐term outcomes. METHODS. The authors performed a prospective cohort study on 5313 men who underwent radical prostatectomy between 1990 and 1999. Patient height and weight were measured at the time of surgery to calculate the body mass index (BMI). The patients were separated into 3 BMI groups: BMI
ISSN:0008-543X
1097-0142
DOI:10.1002/cncr.22030