Risk of prostate cancer–specific mortality following biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy

SJ Freedland, EB Humphreys, LA Mangold… - Jama, 2005 - jamanetwork.com
ContextThe natural history of biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy can be long
but variable. Better risk assessment models are needed to identify men who are at high risk …

Human prostate cancer risk factors

DG Bostwick, HB Burke, D Djakiew… - … Journal of the …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Prostate cancer has the highest prevalence of any nonskin cancer in the human body, with
similar likelihood of neoplastic foci found within the prostates of men around the world …

Leptin and cancer

C Garofalo, E Surmacz - Journal of cellular physiology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The prevalence of obesity has markedly increased over the past two decades, especially in
the industrialized countries. While the impact of excess body weight on the development of …

A meta-analysis of diabetes mellitus and the risk of prostate cancer

JS Kasper, E Giovannucci - Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, 2006 - AACR
Background: Studies investigating the association between diabetes mellitus and prostate
cancer have reported inconsistent findings. We examined this association by conducting a …

The role of obesity and related metabolic disturbances in cancers of the colon, prostate, and pancreas

E Giovannucci, D Michaud - Gastroenterology, 2007 - Elsevier
Recent evidence indicates that obesity and related metabolic abnormalities are associated
with increased incidence or mortality for a number of cancers, including those of the colon …

Obesity and prostate cancer—microenvironmental roles of adipose tissue

A Saha, MG Kolonin, J DiGiovanni - Nature Reviews Urology, 2023 - nature.com
Obesity is known to have important roles in driving prostate cancer aggressiveness and
increased mortality. Multiple mechanisms have been postulated for these clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Obesity, metabolic syndrome, and prostate cancer

AW Hsing, LC Sakoda, SC Chua Jr - The American journal of clinical …, 2007 - Elsevier
Although obesity has been consistently linked to an increased risk of several malignancies,
including cancers of the colon, gallbladder, kidney, and pancreas, its role in prostate cancer …

Prostate cancer and adiponectin

S Goktas, MI Yilmaz, K Caglar, A Sonmez, S Kilic… - Urology, 2005 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: To search for any relation between plasma adiponectin levels and the cellular
differentiation or progression of prostate cancer (PCa). PCa is becoming an increasingly …

Obesity and prostate cancer: epidemiology and clinical implications

WC Buschemeyer III, SJ Freedland - European urology, 2007 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: Both obesity and prostate cancer (PCa) are epidemic in Western society.
Although initial epidemiological data appeared conflicting, recent studies have clarified the …

Calories and carcinogenesis: lessons learned from 30 years of calorie restriction research

SD Hursting, SM Smith, LM Lashinger… - …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Calorie restriction (CR) is arguably the most potent, broadly acting dietary regimen for
suppressing the carcinogenesis process, and many of the key studies in this field have been …