Associations between obesity, smoking and lymph node status at breast cancer diagnosis in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial.
Amelia SmithMaeve MulloolyLaura MurphyThomas Ian BarronKathleen BennettPublished in: PloS one (2018)
Obesity and smoking information was recorded a number of years prior to breast cancer diagnosis, therefore these findings should to be replicated in a larger cohort of women, with more detailed smoking and obesity information.
Keyphrases
- insulin resistance
- metabolic syndrome
- weight loss
- lymph node
- high fat diet induced
- smoking cessation
- type diabetes
- weight gain
- prostate cancer
- clinical trial
- health information
- study protocol
- adipose tissue
- randomized controlled trial
- skeletal muscle
- body mass index
- early stage
- childhood cancer
- squamous cell
- sentinel lymph node