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CHICAGO (AP) - A study suggests overweight breast cancer patients often do not get enough chemotherapy — and that might help explain why they tend to fare worse than thinner women.
Doctors typically use weight, height and body-surface measurements to determine the proper doses of the powerful cancer-fighting drugs.
But many doctors avoid that approach with overweight breast cancer patients because they worry about the toxic side effects of very large doses, said Dr. Jennifer Griggs, the study's lead author and a breast cancer specialist at the University of Rochester.
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