Obesity and Breast Cancer Outcomes: How Much Evidence Is Needed to Change Practice?

What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Weight Loss Randomized Intervention Trials in Female Cancer Survivors.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2016
   Pooled it
2. Translating research into practice: outcomes from the Healthy Living after Cancer partnership project.BMC cancer · 2020
   Trial
3. The effectiveness of home versus community-based weight control programmes initiated soon after breast cancer diagnosis: a randomised controlled trial.British journal of cancer · 2019
   Trial
4. Associations between cardiometabolic comorbidities and mortality in adults with cancer: multinational cohort study.BMJ medicine · 2025
   Article
5. Association between diabetes, obesity, aging, and cancer: review of recent literature.Translational cancer research · 2020
   Review
6. The 2017 Network Tools and Applications in Biology (NETTAB) workshop: aims, topics and outcomes.BMC bioinformatics · 2019
   Article
7. Integration of transcriptomic data in a genome-scale metabolic model to investigate the link between obesity and breast cancer.BMC bioinformatics · 2019
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8. Metformin inhibited colitis and colitis-associated cancer (CAC) through protecting mitochondrial structures of colorectal epithelial cells in mice.Cancer biology & therapy · 2019
   Article
9. The Effects of Metformin and Weight Loss on Biomarkers Associated With Breast Cancer Outcomes.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2018
   Article
10. Nutrients in Energy and One-Carbon Metabolism: Learning from Metformin Users.Nutrients · 2017
    Review
11. Obesity and Energy Balance in GI Cancer.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2016
    Review

Corrections and comments

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  Randomized Trial Comparing Telephone Versus In-Person Weight Loss Counseling on Body Composition and Circulating Biomarkers in Women Treated for Breast Cancer: The Lifestyle, Exercise, and Nutrition (LEAN) Study.2016

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Abstract

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