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      Obesity and risk of recurrence or death after adjuvant endocrine therapy with letrozole or tamoxifen in the breast international group 1-98 trial.

      Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
      Adult, Aged, Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal, therapeutic use, Aromatase Inhibitors, Body Mass Index, Breast Neoplasms, drug therapy, mortality, surgery, Chemotherapy, Adjuvant, Disease-Free Survival, Estrogen Receptor Modulators, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Kaplan-Meier Estimate, Middle Aged, Neoplasm Recurrence, Local, etiology, Nitriles, Obesity, complications, Odds Ratio, Predictive Value of Tests, Prognosis, Proportional Hazards Models, Risk Assessment, Risk Factors, Tamoxifen, Treatment Outcome, Triazoles

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          To examine the association of baseline body mass index (BMI) with the risk of recurrence or death in postmenopausal women with early-stage breast cancer receiving adjuvant tamoxifen or letrozole in the Breast International Group (BIG) 1-98 trial at 8.7 years of median follow-up. This report analyzes 4,760 patients with breast cancer randomly assigned to 5 years of monotherapy with letrozole or tamoxifen in the BIG 1-98 trial with available information on BMI at randomization. Multivariable Cox modeling assessed the association of BMI with disease-free survival, overall survival (OS), breast cancer-free interval, and distant recurrence-free interval and tested for treatment-by-BMI interaction. Median follow-up was 8.7 years. Seventeen percent of patients have died. Obese patients (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m(2)) had slightly poorer OS (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.19; 95% CI, 0.99 to 1.44) than patients with normal BMI (< 25 kg/m(2)), whereas no trend in OS was observed in overweight (BMI 25 to < 30 kg/m(2)) versus normal-weight patients (HR = 1.02; 95% CI, 0.86 to 1.20). Treatment-by-BMI interactions were not statistically significant. The HRs for OS comparing obese versus normal BMI were HR = 1.22 (95% CI, 0.93 to 1.60) and HR = 1.18 (95% CI, 0.91 to 1.52) in the letrozole and tamoxifen groups, respectively. There was no evidence that the benefit of letrozole over tamoxifen differed according to patients' BMI.

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