Clinicopathological characteristics of breast cancer patients from northern Tanzania: Common aspects of late stage presentation and triple negative breast cancer

Abstract

Purpose: Breast cancer (BC) is the second commonest cancer among Tanzanian women. Estrogen, progesterone and human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 play major roles in prognosis and treatment but data for Tanzania are sparse. This study aimed to determine these patterns and histological types, tumour grading and staging of BC patients in northern Tanzania for a better understanding of BC in the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) setting.