A widely used blood test for detecting the earliest stages of prostate cancer may fail to spot the disease in obese men because of their greater blood volume, according to a recent study. The finding suggests that excess weight may affect the reliability of some diagnostic blood tests–not only for prostate cancer, but for other disorders as well.
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