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BREAST CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT
Volume 105, Issue 2, Pages 177-186Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-006-9442-2
Keywords
body weight; chemotherapy; tamoxifen; anthracycline; cyclophosphamide; adriamycin; methotrexate; fluorouracil; women
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA69375, CA72092] Funding Source: Medline
- NCRR NIH HHS [M01-RR00827, M01-RR00079, M01-RR00070] Funding Source: Medline
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Purpose To examine predictors of weight gain following breast cancer diagnosis and subsequent return to pre-cancer weight. Objective To determine (1) the associations of anti-neoplastic chemotherapy and/or, Tamoxifen (R) therapy on weight change following breast cancer diagnosis, (2) whether chemotherapy modified the effect of specific demographic and tumor characteristics on weight gain, (3) the proportion and characteristics of women who gained significant weight on chemotherapy and returned to their pre-cancer weight during follow-up. Subjects and methods Participants were 3088 breast cancer survivors, aged 27-74 years. Weight was measured at baseline and years 1 through 6; pre-cancer weight was self-reported. Cancer stage and treatment modalities were obtained by medical record review; demographic and physical activity data were obtained from questionnaires. Weight gain of >= 5% body weight following cancer diagnosis was considered significant. Results Chemotherapy was significantly associated with weight gain (OR = 1.65, 95% CI = 1.12, 2.43) and Tamoxifen (R) was not (OR = 1.03, 95% CI = 0.71, 1.51). Tamoxifen (R) did not modify the effect of either chemotherapy or its different regimens on weight gain. Both types (anthracycline: OR = 1.63, p-value = 0.01, non-anthracycline: OR = 1.79, p = 0.003) and all regimens of chemotherapy (AC: OR = 1.55, p-value = 0.01, CAF: OR = 1.83, p = 0.003, CMF: OR = 1.76, p = 0.004) were associated with weight gain but the associations were not different from one another. Only 10% of participants returned to their pre-cancer diagnosis weight at the follow-up visits; the degree of initial gain (p for trend < 0.0001) predicted that return. Conclution Chemotherapy was associated with clinically meaningful weight gain, and a return to initial weight following weight gain was unlikely.
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