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Overweight, obesity, and breast cancer screening: results from the 2012 Swiss Health Survey.
Eur J Cancer Prev
March 2016
aDepartment of Epidemiology, Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Zürich bDepartment of Gynecology & Obstetrics, Spital Grabs, Grabs cBreast Center St Gallen, St Gallen dDepartment of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Cantonal Hospital Winterthur eBreast Center 'Senosuisse', Winterthur, Switzerland.
Obesity is associated with poor breast cancer (BC) prognosis. Larger tumor size and more advanced disease stage at diagnosis could partly explain this outcome and nonadherence of obese women to BC screening may play a role. We examined the relationship between BMI (kg/m) and the use of mammography in Switzerland as well as separately in the German-speaking part with mainly opportunistic screening and in the French-speaking part with organized programs.
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