Obesidad y cáncer de mamasu relación en la etiopatogenia y en el pronóstico de la enfermedad

  1. B. Santamaría Jaramillo 1
  2. S. Palma Milla 1
  3. L. M. Bermejo López 1
  4. B. López Plaza 1
  5. A. Lisbona Catalán 1
  6. P. Zamora Auñón 1
  7. C. Gómez Candela 1
  1. 1 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01cby8j38

Zeitschrift:
ANS. Alimentación, nutrición y salud

ISSN: 1136-4815

Datum der Publikation: 2013

Ausgabe: 20

Nummer: 2

Seiten: 31-34

Art: Artikel

Andere Publikationen in: ANS. Alimentación, nutrición y salud

Zusammenfassung

Obesity and breast cancer are two health problems that have high prevalence rates in the Western world. The incidence of both pathologies is increasing, and each of them, independently, is associated with significant morbimortality rates. But in addition, obesity and breast cancer are correlated diseases. On the one hand, excess body weight is associated with an increased risk of developing breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Once the tumor is developed, obese (pre and postmenopausal) women have an increased risk of mortality and recurrence than women with healthy weight. Furthermore, breast cancer treatment is associated with an increased probability of weight gain, and in turn, weight gain after cancer diagnosis is also associated to a poor prognosis. The current challenge is to prove by well-designed interventional studies that, after cancer diagnosis, weight loss or maintaining it within the healthy margins may increase survival.