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Obesity Ups Breast Cancer Deaths
Women who are overweight when they are diagnosed with early breast cancer are at a greater risk of dying from it than if these women weighed less at diagnosis.
That is the consensus of two recent studies. The first study was done at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. The second was done at Kaiser Permanente of Southern California and involved more than 1,300 women with breast cancer. The weight of the women at the time of their diagnosis ranged from less than 133 lbs. to more than 175 lbs. Women in the heaviest weight group had a nearly two and a half times greater risk of dying from breast cancer. These same women had a nearly 5-fold increased risk of dying of breast cancer if their tumors were also estrogen-receptor (ER) negative. For early stage breast cancer, body weight at diagnosis and ER status both proved to be important predictors of breast cancer death. [MedicineNet Cancer General]
Posted October 2004 | Permanent Link
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