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Obesity Linked to Poor Prognosis for Some Breast Cancer Patients
Date:3/14/2008

s all the better."

"But it really must be said that there are women who torment themselves if they are obese at diagnosis or gain weight afterwards, because they believe they are jeopardizing their outcome, Burstein said. "Yet the honest assessment is that we don't really understand yet whether there is a relationship between obesity and breast cancer outcomes, or how strong the relationship is."

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For more on the connection between obesity and cancer, visit the U.S. National Cancer Institute.



SOURCES: Massimo Cristofanilli, M.D., associate professor, department of breast medical oncology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston; Harold J. Burstein, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor, medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston; March 15, 2008, Clinical Cancer Research


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