For more than five years, Dr. Mark Fesen has leveraged his more than 20 years of experience as a medical oncologist to serve patients at Central Care in Kansas. Active in several professional organizations, Dr. Mark Fesen is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research (ACR).
According to a recent ACR report, women who lose weight after undergoing menopause could potentially reduce their risk of getting breast cancer. The report comes from research that was unveiled at the 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. According to Rowan Chlebowski, MD, PhD, one of the study authors, researchers sought to determine if there was any correlation between obesity and the risk of cancer in women.
As part of their research, the team looked at data from nearly 62,000 women who were tracked as part of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Observational Study, which keeps health-related records of women aged 50-79 who are postmenopausal. In looking at three years of data, Dr. Chlebowski says that the study reveals even a small amount of weight loss could have the potential to significantly reduce the chance of developing breast cancer in postmenopausal women.
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