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Weight Loss Intervention in BC Survivors

Can it have clinically meaningful effects?

Publish date:: August 25, 2015

A behavioral weight loss intervention can lead to clinically meaningful weight loss in overweight/obese survivors of breast cancer, according to a study of 692 overweight/obese women who averaged 2 years since primary treatment for early-stage breast cancer. Researchers found:

• At 12 months, mean weight loss was 6.0% of initial weight in the intervention group and 1.5% in a control group.

• At 24 months, mean weight loss was 3.7% in the intervention group and 1.3% in a control group.

• Favorable effects of the intervention were seen on physical activity and blood pressure.

• The weight loss intervention was more effective among women older than 55 years than among younger women.

Citation: Rock CL, Flatt CW, Byers TE, et al. Results of the exercise and nutrition to enhance recovery and good health for You (ENERGY) trial: a behavioral weight loss intervention in overweight or obese breast cancer survivors. [Published online ahead of print August 17, 2015]. J Clin Oncol. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2015.61.1095.

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