Study design and protocol for moving forward: A weight loss intervention trial for African-American breast cancer survivors

BMC Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Stolley, Melinda R ^a,b   Sharp, Lisa K ^b   Fantuzzi, Giamila ^b   Arroyo, Claudia ^a   Sheean, Patricia ^c   Schiffer, Linda ^a   Campbell, Richard ^b   Gerber, Ben ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Breast cancer; Survivorship; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; COMORBIDITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET THERAPY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT GUIDANCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK REDUCTION; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDY DESIGN; TEXT MESSAGING; TREATMENT DURATION; UNITED STATES; WAIST HIP RATIO; WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHNOLOGY; ILLINOIS; MORTALITY; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SURVIVOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHICAGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84953409025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-015-2004-4     Document Type: Article

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