Prostate cancer survivors—watch your weight. Prostate cancer progressed more rapidly in obese patients, according to a study of prostate cancer surgery patients.

Also: The disease was more likely to recur in men who had gained an average of three and a half pounds a year, starting at age 25 the mean age of diagnosis was 60 years).

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