Association of Obesity With Tumor Characteristics and Treatment Failure of Prostate Cancer in African-American and European American Men
- 1 November 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 178 (5), 1939-1945
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.juro.2007.07.021
Abstract
Purpose: The impact of body mass index on tumor characteristics and treatment failure in prostate cancer is not well understood in diverse ethnic groups. We evaluated the effect of body mass index ...Keywords
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