Predictors of weight gain in a cohort of premenopausal early breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.

CONCLUSIONS: Almost a third of premenopausal patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer will gain clinically significant weight and over 40% will have central obesity 12-months following diagnosis. A greater weight gain is predicted by lower pretreatment BMI.
PMID: 30802821 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Breast - February 15, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Gandhi A, Copson E, Eccles D, Durcan L, Howell A, Morris J, Howell S, McDiarmid S, Sellers K, Gareth Evans D, Harvie M Tags: Breast Source Type: research