Obese men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer have more than two-and-a-half times the risk of dying from the disease as compared to men of normal weight at the time of diagnosis, according to a study by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Investigators from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have made a breakthrough in identifying functional elements in the human genome, according to a report published online today in Nature Genetics.

Dozens of medical experts from National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, FDA, Genentech, Stanford University and others will discuss nanotechnology's promise for preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancer at the CancerNano 2007, May 20-24, 2007 in Santa Clara, Calif.