It’s long been known that obesity is linked to increased risk of developing colon cancer, but now researchers at the Mayo Clinic campus in Minnesota have found that obesity is associated with worse outcomes in patients who have already been diagnosed and treated for the cancer.
The authors found that obesity was significantly associated with a greater number of tumor-containing regional lymph nodes and worse survival rates, independent of other tumor features. Mayo Clinic medical oncologist and lead study author, Frank A. Sinicrope, M.D., says their data also showed that depending on a patient’s gender, varying levels of obesity were associated with an increased risk of death, compared to non-obese patients. The study was published March 9, 2010, in Clinical Cancer Research.
Below is a link to an edited youtube video with Dr. Sinicrope.
