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Men who gain weight or who smoke after a prostatectomy double their risk of prostate cancer recurrence and death, a new study suggests. The study on more than 2,700 men over 27 years found that those who were obese and smoked had the highest incidence of prostate-cancer death. For every 5 point increase in BMI, men increased their risk of dying by 52 percent. Smoking appeared to raise the risk of death by 55 percent, researchers found.
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