Obesity and prostate cancer
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Prostate cancer affects less obese…
Although it is less likely that obese people suffer from prostate cancer, are more likely to die from a variety of more aggressive disease, a new study.
Researchers at Umea University in Sweden discovered that it is much less likely to develop cancer in people who are resistant to insulin, a pre-diabetic condition linked to obesity.
However, it is more likely that obese people suffer from an aggressive form of the disease could spread to other parts of the body, says the study.
The research involved 784 men and was released in the publication International Journal of Cancer.
In the United Kingdom are diagnosed each year about 35,000 cases of prostate cancer, about one in eight of all cancer cases.
In this country, the disease causes 10,000 deaths each year.
Sex hormone
“The idea that obese people are less likely to develop prostate cancer is provocative,” said research director, Dr. Par Stattin.
According to Dr Stattin, who led the research, low levels of testosterone (the male sexual steroid which is low in the obese) could explain why these men are less likely to develop prostate cancer.
… But causing malaise that can cause early death.
But may have more risks of being more aggressive forms a variety of cancer that is less related to testosterone.
Dr. Greg Martin, the World Cancer Research Fund, which funded the study, said that “it is important to remember that obesity increases the risk of several cancers, and generally a bad precedent for cancer.
Dr Chris Hiley, the Prostate Cancer Charity, warned that “men should not think that one of the advantages of obesity is that it can prevent prostate cancer because it is not so.”
Cancer and heart disease “are the biggest causes of preventable deaths and weight control with diet and a healthy lifestyle reduces the risk of both.”