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Body Mass Index and patient-reported function, quality of life and treatment toxicity in women receiving adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer
2022-08-04
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<h4>Background: </h4> This study investigates whether high body mass index (BMI) in women diagnosed with early breast cancer (BC) is associated with patient-reported symptom severity during chemotherapy. <h4>Methods: </h4> Women with Stage I-III BC completed toxicity reports for 17 side effects during regularly scheduled chemotherapy infusions. Toxicity reports were compared in women with obesity (BMI >=30) versus...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b48d76f6-b4aa-5c79-a4c3-b2716b580d43
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1882797/v1
