Association between weight gain during adjuvant chemotherapy for early‐stage breast cancer and survival outcomes

Obese and overweight women have an increased risk of breast cancer and worse outcomes at the time of diagnosis. Women tend to gain weight after breast cancer diagnosis and during chemotherapy for early‐stage disease, which may in turn increase risk for worse outcomes. We examined if weight gained du...

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Published in:	Cancer medicine (Malden, MA) Vol. 6; no. 11; pp. 2515 - 2522
Main Authors:	Schvartsman, Gustavo, Gutierrez‐Barrera, Angelica M., Song, Juhee, Ueno, Naoto T., Peterson, Susan K., Arun, Banu
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01-11-2017 John Wiley and Sons Inc
Subjects:	Adjuvant chemotherapy Adult Analysis of Variance Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols - therapeutic use Body Mass Index Body weight Breast cancer Breast Neoplasms - drug therapy Breast Neoplasms - mortality Breast Neoplasms - pathology Breast Neoplasms - surgery Chemotherapy Chemotherapy, Adjuvant Clinical Cancer Research Diagnosis Disease-Free Survival Female Follow-Up Studies Health risk assessment Humans Middle Aged Multivariate analysis Neoplasm Recurrence, Local - epidemiology Neoplasm Recurrence, Local - mortality Neoplasm Staging obesity Original Research Overweight Post-menopause Postmenopause Proportional Hazards Models Retrospective Studies Survival survival outcomes Survival Rate Variation Weight Gain Weight Loss breast cancer Adjuvant chemotherapy survival outcomes body mass index obesity weight gain
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