Obesity raises prostate cancer death risk

Because their asses are too fat alert!

Prostates are palpated, i.e., felt, by a doctor when he or she sticks his or her finger up a man's rectum.

If the prostate feels enlarged, hard, irregular, etc., signs of a possible cancer, then other tests are performed to make the diagnosis.

You cannot feel what you cannot reach. Besides who wants to reach that far into someone so their cheek is up against the other person's butt. (social situations excepted for those to whom this disclaimer applies)

Believe me, for most docs, reimbursement is not THAT good.

Also, the tougher it is to feel, the later the diagnosis. The later the diagnosis, the more advanced the cancer usually is.

Or maybe there is another reason. If there is, it is less likely to be right.