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ArticleOncology (Williston Park, N.Y.)2018

Obese Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors: Management Considerations.

Jennifer Y Sheng, Dipali Sharma, Gerald Jerome, Cesar Augusto Santa-Maria

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Article in Oncology (Williston Park, N.Y.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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24citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from 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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jennifer Y Sheng
Dipali Sharma
Gerald Jerome
Cesar Augusto Santa-Maria
Towson University · US

Funding

ONCOLOGY: CHEMOTHERAPY, IMMUNOLOGY, BIOLOGYT32CA009071 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Mary Y Armanios, Nilofer S. Azad · 1985 to 2026
$12.8M
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA009071
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Excess body weight is a significant risk factor for many cancers, especially breast cancer. Patients with breast cancer or those with a history of the disease who are overweight or obese have an increased risk of therapy-related morbidity, recurrence, and breast cancer-related mortality. Obesity may also affect quality-of-life factors for survivors, including sexual dysfunction, neuropathy, cardiotoxicity, chronic fatigue, and lymphedema. Most cancer guidelines recommend that breast cancer survivors who are overweight or obese lose weight and that those with a normal body mass index (BMI) maintain a stable body weight. The cornerstone of interventions to treat or prevent obesity is lifestyle modification with diet and exercise; however, integrating these things into clinical practice is challenging. This article will present feasible weight loss interventions, and will discuss practical implications of ongoing chemotherapy and endocrine therapy with regard to weight gain, and the impact of obesity on therapy-related conditions during breast cancer survivorship.

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Cancer SurvivorsBody ImageBreast NeoplasmsFatigueFemaleHumansObesityQuality of LifeWeight Loss

Identifiers

PMID30153321
PMCPMC9337744
OpenAlexW2905407824

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