background: we studied the patterns of premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancer incidence and its established risk factors in iran in 2010. in addition, we estimated the 5-year prevalence of breast cancer in the country. methods: we performed an internet and library literature review. we used national cancer registry data, demographic health surveys, national censuses and world bank data ...

Breast cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in women in India in spite of advances in the adjuvant treatment of breast cancer. Locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) still represents the major presenting picture in many urban and rural institutions in our country. Skin Sparing Mastectomy (SSM) and primary reconstruction is a popular option for patients with breast cancer. There...

breast cancer is the most common cancer occurring among women. the mortality rate of breast cancer can be reduced by regular breast cancer screening program. this study was carried out to identify the knowledge and practice of women about breast cancer screening in zahedan, southeast of iran. in this cross- sectional study, 384 women were selected as an improbability sample of women referring t...

background: breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women. breast cancer type 1 susceptibility gene (brca1) is a tumor suppressor gene, involved in dna damage repair and in 81% of the breast-ovarian cancer families were due to brca1. in some clinically investigated genes, the intragenic marker polymorphism is important and the screening of such mutations is faster by using short tandem r...

background: breast cancer incidence has increased rapidly inkuwait, but there haven’t been any studies investigating the recognized risk factors of breast cancer inkuwait. the aim of the study was to investigate breast cancer risk factors among women inkuwait.   methods: a case-control study was conducted in kuwait from may 2003 to march 2004 using a questionnaire including socio-demographic da...

Globally breast cancer is the most common ma­ lignancy among women. In India, it is the com­ monest cancer in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore with Age Incidence Rates (AAR) of 28.6, 28.1 and 22.1 per lac women respectively. Though, ma­ jority of patients present in advanced stages, but due to increasing public awareness and better health care facilities, there is a rising trend in early breast canc...

OBJECTIVES Socioeconomic differences in screening have been well documented in upper-income countries; however, few studies have examined socioeconomic status (SES) over the life-course in relation to cancer screening in lower-income and middle-income countries. Here, we examine individual, parental and life-course SES differences in breast and cervical cancer screening among women in India, Ch...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in females all over the world with approximately one million new cases each year as well as one of second leading causes of death among females. In Pakistan, the most frequently diagnosed cancer among females is also breast cancer, accounting for nearly one in nine female patients. Its incidence in Pakistan is 2.5 times higher than that in neighboring cou...

High fat diet has long been considered as an important etiological factor in the development of breast cancer as per the principal dietary hypothesis [1]. The risk of development of breast cancer has also been found to increase with elevation in circulating lipid components except for high density lipopro-tein cholesterol [2]. It has been found that women with breast cancer excrete higher level...