Purpose Obese women and women who gain weight after a breast cancer diagnosis are at
a greater risk for breast cancer recurrence and death compared with lean women and …

Excess adiposity and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are important contributors to
postmenopausal breast cancer risk. HRT has been shown to modify the association …

Body size is one of the few breast cancer risk factors that can be modified throughout life and
therefore should be considered in research on breast cancer prevention. The contrasting …

Obesity is an established risk factor for some breast cancers, but less is known about its
effect on breast cancer prognosis. Understanding this relationship is important, given the …

Introduction Associations of hormone-receptor positive breast cancer with excess adiposity
are reasonably well characterized; however, uncertainty remains regarding the association …

The evidence for anthropometric factors influencing breast cancer risk is accumulating, but
uncertainties remain concerning the role of fat distribution and potential effect modifiers. We …

Body size is an important modifiable risk factor for postmenopausal breast cancer. However,
it remains unclear whether direct measures of fat mass are better indicators of risk than …

Objective: Epidemiologic evidence suggests a positive association between body mass,
adult height, and postmenopausal breast cancer. However, most studies have not been …

Obesity has been consistently associated with an increased risk of postmenopausal breast
cancer in population-based studies. Conversely, obesity in such studies has been inversely …

The study aims to analyze the association between body mass index (BMI) at time of
diagnosis, breast cancer histopathologic features (tumor size, nuclear grade, estrogen and …