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Louisiana State University: Maintaining Body Weight Won't Save Colorectal Cancer Survivors
March 20, 2021
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 20 (TNSJou) -- The Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center issued the following news release:

Colorectal cancer survivors who maintained a stable body weight but lost muscle and developed fatty deposits in their muscles faced a 40 percent higher risk of premature death than patients who avoided both health issues.

"The conventional wisdom has been that colorectal cancer patients should avoid losing or ga . . .

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