Obesity at Diagnosis and Prostate Cancer Prognosis and Recurrence Risk Following Primary Treatment by Radical Prostatectomy.
Crystal S LanglaisJanet E CowanJohn NeuhausStacey A KenfieldErin Lynn Van BlariganJeanette M BroeringMatthew R CooperbergPeter CarrollJune M ChanPublished in: Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology (2019)
Patients with greater BMI are prone to more advanced disease at diagnosis and may be more likely to have their tumor stage underestimated at diagnosis.