ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2014
Obesity and mortality after breast cancer by race/ethnicity: The California Breast Cancer Survivorship Consortium.
Article in American journal of epidemiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
65 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 90 citations in OpenAlex.
- Continental differences in the association between excess body weight and prognosis in triple-negative breast cancer: a meta-analysis.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2025Pooled it
- Postdiagnosis body fatness, weight change and breast cancer prognosis: Global Cancer Update Program (CUP global) systematic literature review and meta-analysis.International journal of cancer · 2023Pooled it
- Adiposity and cancer survival: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2022Pooled it
- Benefits of weight loss programs for breast cancer survivors: a systematic reviews and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2022Pooled it
- Association of Obesity With Survival Outcomes in Patients With Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2021Pooled it
- Association between Body Mass Index and Cancer Survival in a Pooled Analysis of 22 Clinical Trials.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2017Pooled it
- Validation of self-reported comorbidity status of breast cancer patients with medical records: the California Breast Cancer Survivorship Consortium (CBCSC).Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2016Pooled it
- Weight Gain After Breast Cancer Diagnosis and All-Cause Mortality: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2015Pooled it
- Feasibility and potential efficacy of commercial mHealth/eHealth tools for weight loss in African American breast cancer survivors: pilot randomized controlled trial.Translational behavioral medicine · 2020Trial
- Differences in overall survival for invasive epithelial ovarian cancer by race and ethnicity: results from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium.British journal of cancer · 2026Article
- Tumor Characteristics and Event Free Survival in Older and Younger Women with Early Breast Cancer.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2026Article
- Variation in image-assessed abdominal adiposity and skeletal muscle and their associations with pathological characteristics in renal cell carcinoma.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2026Article
- Body size and composition trends in U.S. adults with a history of cancer: NHANES 1999-2018.Preventive oncology & epidemiology · 2026Article
- Racial and ethnic variation in body composition and prognosis of nonmetastatic breast cancer.Cancer · 2025Article
- ERBB2-Low Expression by Race and Ethnicity Among Patients With Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- The Molecular and Genetic Interactions between Obesity and Breast Cancer Risk.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Review
- Evidence-Based Interventions for Reducing Breast Cancer Disparities: What Works and Where the Gaps Are?Cancers · 2022Review
- Weight Gain after Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2022Article
- mTOR pathway gene expression in association with race and clinicopathological characteristics in Black and White breast cancer patients.Discover oncology · 2022Article
- Outdoor ambient air pollution and breast cancer survival among California participants of the Multiethnic Cohort Study.Environment international · 2022Article
5 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
17 authors at 7 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
We investigated body size and survival by race/ethnicity in 11,351 breast cancer patients diagnosed from 1993 to 2007 with follow-up through 2009 by using data from questionnaires and the California Cancer Registry. We calculated hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals from multivariable Cox proportional hazard model-estimated associations of body size (body mass index (BMI) (weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) and waist-hip ratio (WHR)) with breast cancer-specific and all-cause mortality. Among 2,744 ascertained deaths, 1,445 were related to breast cancer. Being underweight (BMI <18.5) was associated with increased risk of breast cancer mortality compared with being normal weight in non-Latina whites (hazard ratio (HR) = 1.91, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.14, 3.20), whereas morbid obesity (BMI ≥ 40) was suggestive of increased risk (HR = 1.43, 95% CI: 0.84, 2.43). In Latinas, only the morbidly obese were at high risk of death (HR = 2.26, 95% CI: 1.23, 4.15). No BMI-mortality associations were apparent in African Americans and Asian Americans. High WHR (quartile 4 vs. quartile 1) was associated with breast cancer mortality in Asian Americans (HR = 2.21, 95% CI: 1.21, 4.03; P for trend = 0.01), whereas no associations were found in African Americans, Latinas, or non-Latina whites. For all-cause mortality, even stronger BMI and WHR associations were observed. The impact of obesity and body fat distribution on breast cancer patients' risk of death may vary across racial/ethnic groups.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.