Obesity Is an Independent Predictor of Poor Survival in Metastatic Breast Cancer: Retrospective Analysis of a Patient Cohort Whose Treatment Included High-Dose Chemotherapy and Autologous Stem Cell Support

Table 1

Patient and disease characteristics.

	N
Race
White	81
Hispanic	7
Asian	4
African-American	4
Age at metastasis
<age 40	19
≥age 40	77
Menopausal status at diagnosis
Premenopausal	28
Postmenopausal	68
Unknown	2
BMI at metastasis
<30	73
≥30	23
Stage at diagnosis
Stage I	21
Stage II	43
Stage III	23
Stage IV	8
Unknown	1
Histology
Infiltrating ductal	79
Infiltrating lobular	10
Unknown	7
Estrogen receptor status
Positive	57
Negative	36
Unknown	3
Site of metastasis
Visceral	38
Bone	28
Lymph nodes	14
Local	16