Connection between invasive breast cancer characteristics and adipose tissue quantity and distribution in postmenopausal women

Aim: To investigate a potential connection between breast cancer characteristics and adipose tissue quantity and distribution in postmenopausal women. Patients and methods: The study included 70 postmenopausal women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. Overall anthropometric measures (weight, height, waist circumference-WC, hip circumference-HC, body mass index-BMI, waist hip ratio-WHR) and pathohistological data (tumor size, histological grade, estrogen-ER receptor, progesterone-PR receptor, HER2 and Ki67 expression, immunohistochemical tumor type) were collected. Results: Average age was 65 years (42-86), height 164.8±7.0 cm, weight 75.6±14.5 kg, BMI 27.9±5.3 kg/m2, WC 90.5±12.4 cm, HC 107.6±11.7 cm, WHR 0.84±0.07. Estrogen positive (n=41, 91.1% vs n=18, *Dopisni autor: Marija Krpina Sveučilište u Rijeci, Medicinski fakultet Braće Branchetta 20, 51 000 Rijeka e-mail: mkrpina1102@gmail.com 1 Sveučilište u Rijeci, Medicinski fakultet, Rijeka 2 Zavod za patologiju, Sveučilište u Rijeci, Medicinski fakultet, Rijeka 3 Zavod za opću kirurgiju, Klinika za kirurgiju, Klinički bolnički centar Rijeka, Rijeka Povezanost količine i distribucije masnog tkiva s tumorskim karakteristikama invazivnog karcinoma dojke u postmenopauzalnih žena Connection between invasive breast cancer characteristics and adipose tissue quantity and distribution in postmenopausal women Marija Krpina1*, Lucija Knez1, Andrej Belančić1, Paula Georgev1, Martina Demaria1, Manuela Avirović2, Marina Kosmat3, Franjo Lovasić3, Elvira Mustać2 Izvorni znanstveni članak/Original scientific article Napomena: Rad je prezentiran na 7. hrvatskom kongresu o debljini s međunarodnim sudjelovanjem (26. – 29. travnja 2018., Opatija; organizator: Hrvatsko društvo za debljinu) te prema Uredništvu časopisa Medicina Fluminensis odabran kao najbolje kongresno priopćenje.