Presentation And Risk Factors Of Female With Breast Cancer In Najaf Governorate

FICMS,; MBChB,; CABM,; Ali Al-Khursani, Hassen

	Presentation And Risk Factors Of Female With Breast Cancer In Najaf Governorate
KUFA MEDICAL JOURNAL
Article 1, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 260-276
Authors
; ; ; Hassen Ali Al-Khursani
Abstract
Aim of study: To identify the presentation and risk factors of breast cancer in Najaf governorate. Method: Cross-sectional study of breast cancer women who attended oncology unit in Najaf between first of July 2006, and first of July 2007, all breast cancer cases (75) who visited unite and lived in Najaf governorate and formula was done for it that contain (marital status of women, age, occupation, parity, age of first child, age of menarche, age of menopause, smoking, use of contraceptive pills, body mass index, family history of breast cancer, family history of other type of cancer, symptoms, duration of diagnosis, site of cancer, type of treatment - neoadjuvant or adjuvant), and all women's without neither mammogram nor radiation, all had medical records available, and other information take directly from patients, the SSPS statistical program used to compare categorical variable. Results: The accumulative breast cancer cases from first of July 2006, to first of July 2007 was 75, and highest percentage 31(37.7%) in age group 41-50 year old and more in house-wife 59(79%), and with maximum rate at Para 1-3 (40%),and 20(27%) in nilliparous, 44(59%) in non-smoker women while 70 cases in married women ,and 42 cases at age of menarche 13-14 while 20 of patients at menopausal age between 46-47 44(59%) of cases from urban, 31 cases in women with first child birth at age 19-23 years old, 32 cases at weight 71-80kilograms 39 at height 161-170 centimeters, 26(35%) occurs in women take contraceptive pills, 44(59%) happen in women lived in urban area, 11 has first degree of family history of breast cancer 6 of women with breast cancer has ovarian cancer, 95% of cases has breast lump as first presentation, 73(97%) has ductal breast cancer, 80% of women has left side breast cancer, 36 of patients take 5-6 months until diagnosis, 73 has breastectomy (adjuvant treatment). Conclusions: The majority of women with breast cancer were presented in the 5th decade and there is may be no relation between smoking and breast cancer, most of our patients were married and house-wife and majority of these patients presented with breast lambs and mostly affected left side.

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