Abstract
428 THE IMPACT OF OBESITY ON BIOCHEMICAL FAILURE AFTER RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN AMERICAN PATIENTS Benjamin M Brucker*, Meredith Bergey, Matthew J Resnick, Seema Sonnad, Daniel Canter, Thomas J Guzzo, Timothy R Rebbeck, Alan J Wein, S Bruce Malkowicz. Philadelphia, PA, and Baltimore, MD. INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: The relationship between body mass index (BMI) and prostate cancer deserves investigation as the obesity epidemic is nearing a health care crisis. Racial differences have been implicated in explaining poorer prostate cancer outcomes among African-Americans. We evaluated the role of race and obesity on PSA-free survival in a cohort of men larger than we had previously reported. This was drawn from a radical prostatectomy database from 1991 to 2005. METHODS: There were a total of 2,163 patients from a prospectively maintained database of radical prostatectomy patients were evaluated for the impact of obesity on pathologic and clinical
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