Background Breast cancer survivors are at increased risk for developing second primary
cancers compared with the general population. Little is known about whether body mass …

Purpose To examine the association between obesity measured by body mass index (BMI)
and waist circumference (WC) according to menopausal status in Korean women. Methods …

Previous evidence on postdiagnosis body fatness and mortality after breast cancer was
graded as limited‐suggestive. To evaluate the evidence on body mass index (BMI), waist …

Introduction Body mass index (BMI) during adulthood is inversely related to the incidence of
premenopausal breast cancer, but the role of body fatness earlier in life is less clear. We …

Environmental factors influence breast cancer incidence and progression. High body mass
index (BMI) is associated with increased risk of post-menopausal breast cancer and with …

Body fatness at young ages may be related to breast cancer risk independently of adult
adiposity. The authors conducted a prospective analysis among 188,860 women (7,582 …

Adult obesity has been associated with an increased risk of post‐menopausal breast cancer,
but it is unclear whether this relationship reflects a causal role of obesity during childhood …

African American (AA) women are more likely than white women to be obese and to be
diagnosed with ER− and triple-negative (TN) breast cancer, but few studies have evaluated …

Obesity is a well‐established cause of postmenopausal breast cancer. However, early life
adiposity is inversely associated with breast cancer incidence. To understand these …

Purpose: Overweight and obese women with breast cancer have poorer survival compared
with thinner women. One possible reason is that breast cancer survivors with higher degrees …