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BMI, BMI Change, and Overall Survival in Patients With Lung Cancer

Thursday, August 22, 2019

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Source URL: https://www.jto.org/article/S1556-0864(19)30416-2/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_…

Author(s)

Daniel Shepshelovich, Wei Xu, Lin Lu, Aline Fares, Ping Yang, David Christiani, Jie Zhang, Kouya Shiraishi, Brid M. Ryan, Chu Chen, Ann G. Schwartz, Adonina Tardon, Xifeng Wu, Matthew B. Schabath, M. Dawn Teare, Loic Le Marchand, Zuo-Feng Zhang, John K. Field, Hermann Brenner, Nancy Diao, Juntao Xie, Takashi Kohno, Curtis C. Harris, Angela S. Wenzlaff, Guillermo Fernandez-Tardon, Yuanqing Ye, Fiona Taylor, Lynne R. Wilkens, Michael Davies, Yi Liu, Matt J. Barnett, Gary E. Goodman, Hal Morgenstern, Bernd Holleczek, M. Catherine Brown, Geoffrey Liu

This study of over 25,000 pts from the International Lung Cancer Consortium identified underweight and severly obese patients as having poorer survival than others, whereas a survival advantage was evident among patients who were overweight or mildly obese. Decreased BMI (wt loss) was associated with poorer outcomes across all BMI categories.