A.A.,
I am not addressing the routine use/dose of steriods for chemo issue in relation to this report. Whether or not the resultant amount of weight gained as a result of these meds reaches a level deemed to be unhealthy, the gain itself is a huge QOL issue and deserves closer scrutiny on that basis alone. If this report can have the beneficial effect of causing doctors to scrutinize that practice, it will have served a useful purpose.
In much of what I have read so far, I am not comfortable with the way in which the information has been processed to arrive at conclusions that appear to me to frequently be hypothesis generating rather than a basis for a particular action. I still harken back to the article on epidemiology I posted in the articles forum last month
http://her2support.org/vbulletin/sho...eferrerid=1173 as a cautionary note on how to interpret associations without clear cut cause and effect relationships. For anyone who downloads the report, the description of how the authors defined causality is found on page 82 of the pdf file which is technically page 57 of the report.
Still wading through too much info for more specific comment/criticism.
Hopeful