Pre-morbid body-mass-index in breast cancer: Reversed effect on survival in hormone receptor negative patients

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 123-130

  Mæhle, Bjørn Ove ^a   Tretli, Steinar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Hormone receptors; Prognosis; Quetelet's index

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE;

EID: 0029831727     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01807157     Document Type: Article

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