Conclusion

Our whole-food, plant-based intervention among women with metastatic breast cancer is feasible and results in clinically significant improvements in weight and related cardiometabolic and hormonal risk factors. This is one of the first RCTs to demonstrate that dietary changes during systemic treatment are well tolerated and result in these clinically important improvements. This is particularly relevant for this population, which is highly interested in nutrition and concerned with treatment-related weight gain, its comorbid conditions, and its implications for cancer-related outcomes. Trials of longer duration are required to understand the sustainability of these findings as well as their effects on cancer progression and mortality.