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MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: OBESITY :
MEDICAL: DISEASES: CANCER: TONGUE CANCER:
Obesity May Raise Death Risk From Tongue Cancer
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Obesity May Raise Death Risk From Tongue Cancer
By Robert Preidt
Health Day
U S News and World Report
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2014/02/07/
obesity-may-be-tied-to-lower-survival-rates-for-tongue-cancer-patients
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/oh7aj9m
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FRIDAY, Feb. 7, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Obese people who are diagnosed
with tongue cancer might be at increased risk of dying from the disease, a
small new study finds.
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Researchers looked at about 150 people who had surgery for early stage
squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue and found that obese patients had a
five-fold increased risk of death.
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Three years after surgery, 87 percent of normal-weight patients were
alive, compared with 68 percent of obese patients, according to the
findings, which were published recently in the journal Cancer.
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The study is the first to link obesity and increased risk of death in
patients with any type of head or neck cancer, the researchers said.
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They said previous studies have found an association between obesity and
worse outcomes among patients with several common cancers, including
breast and colon cancers.
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"The role of obesity across several common cancers is a focus of increased
attention," study senior author Dr. Clifford Hudis, chief of breast cancer
medicine at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City,
said in a center news release. Hudis is also president of the American
Society of Clinical Oncology.
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Because the study was so specific in terms of the cancer's location in the
body and
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