Overweight, obesity and breast cancer prognosis: Optimal body size indicator cut-points

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 193-203

  Majed, Bilal ^a,b   Moreau, Thierry ^c   Asselain, Bernard ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b Paul Brousse Hospital ^*  (France)

^c HÔPITAL PAUL BROUSSE   (France)

Author keywords

Body size indicators; Breast cancer; Cut points; External validation; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; OBESITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SECOND CANCER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 67349109378     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-008-0065-7     Document Type: Article

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