The Effect of Obesity on Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Breast Cancer


The Effect of Obesity on Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Breast Cancer
Slides from presentations at SABCS 2010 and transcribed comments from a recent interview with Kathleen I Pritchard, MD (12/30/10)
Hepp PGM et al. Multivariate analysis of obesity and disease free survival in patients with nodal positive primary breast cancer — The ADEBAR trial. San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2010;Abstract S2-2.

Seynaeve C et al. The impact of body mass index (BMI) on the efficacy of adjuvant endocrine therapy in postmenopausal hormone sensitive breast cancer patients; exploratory analysis from the TEAM study. San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2010;Abstract S2-3.

Sparano JA et al. Obesity at diagnosis is associated with inferior outcomes in hormone receptor positive breast cancer. San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2010;Abstract S2-1.

Dr Pritchard is
Senior Scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute, Medical Oncologist at Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre, Professor in the Department of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada.