Epidemio-Clinical, Anatomopathological, Computed Tomography Aspects from Breast Cancer to Imaging and Medical Oncology Departments at Chu – Mother-Child “Luxembourg”

Abstract

Introduction: Cancer results from an anarchic proliferation of abnormal cells of the mammary gland and is the most common cancer in women in developed countries with 50,000 new cases in 2008. Objectives: The aim of our work was to describe the sociodemographic characteristics of patients, to determine the different sites and the frequency of metastases; and to describe the CT and histological aspects in the diagnosis of extension, therapy and assessment. Methods: Our study was retrospective descriptive over a period of 12 months from January 2020 to December 2020 in the radiology and medical oncology department of CHUME Luxembourg. It concerned all patients with histologically confirmed cancer who had undergone a scan before, during treatment or during therapeutic monitoring. The examinations were carried out with a HITACHI SUPRIA 16 BARRETTES CT scanner installed in 2015. Results: During the period of our study, the frequency of breast cancer was 10.7% (130 cases) out of 1204 scans carried out with a female predominance of 98%, an average age of 52 years and extremes of 12 to 90 years. The main metastases were: pulmonary (59%), followed by lymph node metastases (66%), bone (51%), liver (29%) and brain (2%). The association of pulmonary, lymph node, liver and bone metastasis represented 27% of the most frequent associations. As for the histological aspect, non-specific invasive carcinoma grade II SBR and TNM was the most frequent.