Lifestyle Patterns and Survival Following Breast Cancer in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few studies have examined the impact of lifestyle patterns on survival following breast cancer. We aimed to identify distinct lifestyle patterns based on five behavior/dietary exposures among a population-based sample of women diagnosed with breast cancer and to examine their association with subsequent survival.

Methods

In the Carolina Breast Cancer Study Phases I/II, we interviewed 1,808 women 20-74 years of age following diagnosis of invasive breast cancer. We determined vital status using the National Death Index (717 deaths, 427 from breast cancer; median follow-up 13.56 years). We assessed lifestyle patterns using a latent class analysis based on five behavioral and dietary exposures: current versus never/former smokers; low versus high vegetable and fruit i

SUBMITTER: Parada H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7451223 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature