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Background: Obese patients may be more likely to have treatment-related complications. Little is known about the association between BMI and chemotherapy-related ER visits and hospitalizations among breast cancer patients. In… Click to show full abstract
Background: Obese patients may be more likely to have treatment-related complications. Little is known about the association between BMI and chemotherapy-related ER visits and hospitalizations among breast cancer patients. In this study we evaluated the association between BMI and ER visits/hospitalizations in a large sample of breast cancer patients.Methods: We identified beneficiaries from the commercial MarketScan Health Risk Assessment database with breast cancer-specific claims between 2009-2014. All patients underwent mastectomy or lumpectomy and had BMI data available. BMI was categorized as normal ( Citation Format: Giordano SH, Niu J, Zhao H, Zorzi D, Chavez-Mac Gregor M. Association of body mass index (BMI) with chemotherapy administration and emergency room (ER) visits among breast cancer patients [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2017 Dec 5-9; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(4 Suppl):Abstract nr P6-08-06.
Journal Title: Cancer Research
Year Published: 2018
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