. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2012 Nov 2;136(3):729–737. doi: 10.1007/s10549-012-2275-2

Table 4.

Body weight at termination of the study

	Water	Low alcohol	Moderate alcohol	High alcohol
Experiment 1	24.4 ^a (0.4)	23.3 (0.5)	24.2 (0.3)	20.9 (0.4) ^*
Experiment 2	22.0 (0.4)	-	22.0 (0.4)	19.3 (0.4) ^*
No tumor controls^b	22.3 (1.5)	-	22.7 (0.4)	19.8 (0.9)
Experiment 3	21.1 (0.4)	-	-	19.5 (0.8) ^*

Body weight in g at necropsy, minus the weight of the primary tumor (±SEM),

Body weight of control animals (n=3–4 per group) that were not injected with tumor cells are shown for Experiment 2.

indicates significant difference from Water-drinking controls.

‘-‘ indicates the treatment group was not included in that study.

Note. The starting weight of mice was not significantly different among the different experimental groups, and mice in all treatment groups gained weight during the period before tumor injection. However, mice consuming high alcohol generally gained less weight than the other experimental groups, both for tumor-bearing mice and for mice not injected with tumor.