Results: An average 469 new patients per year or 11 new patients per clinic visit were reviewed over a two and a half year period. Females predominated (98.9%). The mean age of the patients was 34.71 years (range 1 to 96 years). The average age at menarche was 14.49 years and the mean duration of symptoms was 6.86 months. Only 2.6% of 843 patients had a positive family history of breast disease...

Seventy-eight symptomatic females without palpable breast lumps were subjected to bilateral four quadrant fine needle aspiration cytology. Cytological evidence of an epithelial proliferative lesion was seen in 44 of these cases. Based on the cytological evidence of proliferation, the site for open biopsy was determined. Histopathological study of the breast biopsies in these patients showed pro...

BACKGROUND The psychological processes involved in the delay between noticing breast symptoms and seeking medical care are not well understood. METHODS We evaluated 85 women referred to a specialist breast clinic prior to their clinic appointment. We assessed the relationship between delay and the type of breast symptom, immediate emotional response to the symptom, perceived risk of breast ca...

Detecting large lumps of oil sand is a critical step which protects exploitation facilities from jamming. This report presents a method that detects large lumps with edge detection and edge classification. The approach applies Gaussian based local scale control algorithm to detect edges in oil sands, then extracts intensity features as well as geometry features for edge classification. Trained ...

INTRODUCTION Breast masses have become common in women. Such masses pose a potential threat to women especially in the era of increased cases of breast cancer worldwide. Breast carcinoma ranks first among the malignant tumors affecting females in many parts of the world with the rate of breast cancer being 1 in 8 in USA. There are currently more than 600 000 cancer deaths annually in Africa. By...

BACKGROUND In Ghana data on breast disease is lacking. OBJECTIVE To describe the type of complaints presented at a specialist clinic. STUDY DESIGN A prospective descriptive study. SETTING The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Breast Care Centre (KATH-BCC) METHOD: Data including the age, type of complaints, the clinical, radiological and histological diagnosis was obtained and recorded from a...

PATIENT Female, 60 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Rhabdomyosarcoma of the breast Symptoms: Lump in axilla Medication: - Clinical Procedure: Mastectomy Specialty: Oncology. OBJECTIVE Rare disease. BACKGROUND Primary nonepithelial malignancies of the breast include primary breast sarcomas, therapy-related breast sarcomas, the phyllodes tumors, and primary breast lymphomas. They account for less than 5% of ...