Overweight and obesity in long-term breast cancer survivors: How does sexual orientation impact BMI?

Cancer Investigation

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 220-228

  Boehmer, Ulrike ^a   Mertz, Michelle ^b   Timm, Alison ^a   Glickman, Mark ^a   Sullivan, Mairead ^a   Potter, Jennifer ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Breast neoplasms; Disparity; Female; Homosexuality; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BISEXUAL FEMALE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE; HUMAN; LESBIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; OBESITY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVAL TIME; TELEMONITORING; UNDERWEIGHT; WEIGHT CHANGE;

BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 79951588129     PISSN: 07357907     EISSN: 15324192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07357907.2010.550664     Document Type: Article

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