Breast cancer in fallujah district (Iraq), a comparative pathological study

Autor: Mothana Ali Khalil, Mohammed Tafash Dagash, HaithemTafash Dagash, AdnanChechan Obaid, Arkan Obaid Jasim Al-Isawi
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Zdroj: Scopus-Elsevier
Popis: Background: The most common cancer in the world is breast cancer. For Iraq, this tumor is the number onecancer in women, but unfortunately there is a dearth of academic studies covering this tumor,despite somestudies have indicated a general increase in cancer in Iraq, especially in Fallujah, and these studies attributedthe reason to the possible use of carcinogenic weapons in repeated wars in this region.The aim of this study is to determine the average age of breast cancer patients at diagnosis, and also the type,side, pathological stage and grade of tumor, in order to do statistical assessment with different studies in theArab region and the world as well as the other Iraqi region.Materials and Method: This is a retrospective descriptive study of breast cancer, cases of breast cancerwere collected over two periods, the first extended from 1st February 2011 to 30 December 2014, and thesecond between 1st June 2017 and 31 October 2019, and 342cases had been recorded in this study.Results: The average female-age at time of diagnosis: 47.59 (SD: 13.11),cases with age
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