Background: The purpose of this investigation was to examine the association of obesity and
the adipokines leptin, adiponectin, and interleukin-6 (IL-6) with prostate cancer risk and …

Background: Obesity is a cancer risk factor. Although it does not increase the risk of
localized prostate cancer, it raises the risk of the aggressive disease in men of European …

BACKGROUND Differential prostate‐specific antigen (PSA) testing practices according to
obesity‐related comorbid conditions may contribute to inconsistent results in studies of …

Studies on the relationship between obesity and prostate cancer incidence are inconsistent.
In part, this inconsistency may be due to a differential effect of obesity on low-grade and high …

BACKGROUND Current research is inconclusive regarding the effect of obesity on
outcomes after a prostate cancer diagnosis. The objective of this study was to examine …

BACKGROUND Obesity is associated with risk of aggressive prostate cancer (PCa), but not
with over‐all PCa risk. However, obese men have larger prostates which may lower biopsy …

CONTEXT: Obesity and prostate cancer (PCa) affect substantial proportions of Western
society. Mounting evidence, both epidemiologic and mechanistic, for an association …

Purpose: We examined the impact of obesity on disease specific and overall survival in
patients with prostate cancer. Materials and Methods: We identified 7,274 men from the …

Background: Increasing evidence suggested obesity was associated with the risk of prostate
cancer. Also, the association between prostate cancer risk and obesity has received much …

There is no clear link between obesity and prostate cancer incidence but an association has
been reported between obesity and fatal prostate cancer. We report on two prospective …