Abstract
Background: Breast cancer is the most commonly identified dangerous cancer in females. While breast cancer has been recorded to be a source of female mortality in many developing countries, studies have shown that bronchogenic carcinoma exceeds breast cancer as the most common reason of female mortality. Objective: This study aims at evaluating the role of (clinical examination, radiological finding and histopathological finding) in detection of breast cancer in Baquba Teaching Hospital. Patients and Methods: This cross-sectional study recruited ambulatory patients at outpatient breast clinic unit in a Baquba Teaching Hospital from 1st of January to 31th of May 2019. Results: This study showed that while 39 (93%) of breast cancer patients had a positive finding on clinical examination, only 3 (7%) had a negative finding. On the other hand our data showed that 35 (83%) of breast cancer patients had positive radiological findings and only 7 (17 %) of breast cancer patients had negative radiological findings. 42 (100%) of breast cancer patients have shown positive histopathological findings. Conclusion: Triple assessment is a very useful diagnostic tool to evaluate patients with breast lumps and detect patients with breast cancer.
Highlights
Breast cancer is steadily increasing as the caused a major public health problem among most widespread malignancy among women women [2,3]
There are 309 patients who have enrolled in this study, 42 (14 %) patients were diagnosed with breast cancer and 267 (86 %) were diagnosed with other breast abnormality
Our data showed that 1 (2%) of breast cancer patients classified to be in the first age group (21-30 years), 7 (17%) of them to the second group (31-40 years), 13 (31%) to the third group (41-50 years), 10 (24%) to the forth group (51-60 years), 9 (21%) to the fifth group (61-70 years) and 2 (5%) belong to the sixth group (71-80 years)
Summary
Breast cancer is steadily increasing as the caused a major public health problem among most widespread malignancy among women women [2,3]. Aim of the study To evaluate the role of (Clinical examination, radiological finding and histopathological finding) in detection of breast cancer. Objective: This study aims at evaluating the role of (clinical examination, radiological finding and histopathological finding) in detection of breast cancer in Baquba Teaching Hospital. Patients and Methods: This cross-sectional study recruited ambulatory patients at outpatient breast clinic unit in a Baquba Teaching Hospital from 1st of January to 31th of May 2019. Results: This study showed that while 39 (93%) of breast cancer patients had a positive finding on clinical examination, only 3 (7%) had a negative finding. On the other hand our data showed that 35 (83%) of breast cancer patients had positive radiological findings and only 7 (17 %) of breast cancer patients had negative radiological findings.
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