background : magnetic resonance imaging of the breast is becoming a useful adjunct to mammography and sonography for the detection of breast lesions. however, it is not yet accepted as a routine examination for all breast cancer patients due to the lack of data regarding whether breast magnetic resonance imaging impacts recurrence or survival. this trial examines the use of magnetic resonance i...

Risk-reduction mastectomy (RRM), also known as bilateral prophylactic mastectomy, is a controversial clinical option for women who are at increased risk of breast cancer. High-risk women, including women with a strong family history of breast cancer and BRCA1/2 mutation carriers, have several clinical options: risk-reduction surgery (bilateral mastectomy and bilateral oophorectomy), surveillanc...

Breast sarcoma is an uncommon clinical entity that represents less than 1% of all breast malignancies. This tumor has a mesenchymal origin and classified into primary sarcomas secondary which develop as result previous irradiation or chronic lymphedema. A 73-year-old female was admitted to the Mankweng Academic Hospital, University Limpopo, South Africa, with rapidly enlarging, painful lump in ...

INTRODUCTION Despite health education efforts to educate women on breast cancer and breast cancer screening modalities, the incidence of breast cancer and presentation at an advanced stage are still a problem in Malaysia. OBJECTIVES To determine factors associated with the uptake of breast cancer screening among women in the general population. METHODS This pre-intervention survey was condu...

Breasts are one of the secondary sexual characteristics in females. They rout for nutrition & growing infant till 4-6 months age. Breast diseases most common females any society. Multiple types benign breast lesions like fibroadenomas, simple cyst, abscess, lymph nodes enlargement and different malignancies pathologies breast. Up to 30% women suffer from disease at time their life this comp...

As recently as two decades ago breast cancer was not a significant public health concern in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). However, mortality rates from breast cancer have been increasing for at least 40 years in most LAC countries. Socioeconomic development and consequent changes in reproductive behaviors over the past 50 years are thought to have contributed to the increased risk of b...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate knowledge and attitude of women working in the hospital on breast cancer, their behaviors related to early diagnostic methods, and to determine the effectiveness of training in order to increase awareness on breast cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study group consisted of women working in the Dokuz Eylül University Hospital. The data of this cross-secti...

Abstract: Mycetoma is a chronic suppurative infection affecting skin, subcutaneous tissue, and bones which common in tropical subtropical regions. The manifestations of mycetoma are painless mass, multiple sinuses purulent or seropurulent discharge that may contain grains. We reported case 39-year-old female with complaint skin mass her left breast for about year. clinical diagnosis was tumour ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the individual and combined diagnostic accuracy of clinical examination, mammography, and fine needle aspiration biopsy in young women with breast cancer. DESIGN Analysis based on case notes of patients presenting with breast cancer during 1971-89. SETTING A combined breast clinic. PATIENTS Consecutive series of 81 women aged less than 36 with histologically proved bre...