Listen to a blog summary of a trending editorial co-authored by researchers Jennifer Y. Sheng and Vered Stearns from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, entitled, "Innovating and expanding weight loss strategies for breast cancer survivors.”
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After being diagnosed with breast cancer, up to 96% of women have reported gaining weight. Medications, inactivity, food choice, and food quantity can all lead to weight gain. Studies have shown that weight gain can increase the risk of breast cancer recurrence by 40–50% and breast cancer-related mortality by 53–60%. Thus, for women with breast cancer and those who have survived breast cancer, weight management is a potentially life-saving intervention.
In an editorial paper published by Oncotarget in 2021, researchers Jennifer Y. Sheng and Vered Stearns from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center discussed the results of the 2020 POWER-Remote Trial—a study among breast cancer survivors on the results of a remote-based weight loss program compared with a self-directed approach. Their editorial paper is entitled, “Innovating and expanding weight loss strategies for breast cancer survivors.”
THE POWER INTERVENTION
The Practice-based Opportunities for Weight Reduction (POWER) intervention is a 12-week behavioral weight loss program designed for overweight and obese participants. The POWER program strategy focuses on physical activity and behavioral changes, nutrition education and setting individual goals. Researchers developed the POWER-remote intervention to enable participants to engage in this weight loss program remotely through weekly video conferences and phone calls. In the current editorial paper, the researchers discussed the results from a study that adapted the POWER-remote intervention for breast cancer survivors: the POWER-Remote Trial.
“The original Practice-based Opportunities for Weight Reduction (POWER) study in obese individuals with a risk for cardiovascular disease demonstrated equivalent weight loss outcomes between in-person coaching and a remote intervention.”
Full blog - https://www.oncotarget.org/2022/03/09/a-remote-weight-loss-strategy-for-breast-cancer-survivors/
DOI - https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.27898 (PDF Download)
Full text - https://www.oncotarget.com/article/27898/
Correspondence to - Jennifer Y. Sheng - jsheng7@jhmi.edu
Author interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8owrnhxzq7A
Author testimonial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb8GR__ILMo
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Keywords - breast cancer, obesity, lifestyle interventions
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