High body mass index is associated with worse quality of life in breast cancer patients receiving radiotherapy

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 125-133

  Fang, Penny ^b   Tan, Kay See ^a   Troxel, Andrea B ^a   Rengan, Ramesh ^b   Freedman, Gary ^b   Lin, Lilie L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Breast cancer; Quality of life; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HORMONE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CANCER THERAPY GENERAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MD ANDERSON SYMPTOM INVENTORY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; WELLBEING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; THINNESS;

EID: 84884285560     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-013-2663-2     Document Type: Article

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