So-called 'historical' necrotic breast cancers: a terrifying actuality in Africa. The case of Burkina Faso
| Autor: | A. Dem, A.T. Bambara, M. Zida, H.A. Bambara, A. Sanou, O.-R. Somé, E. Ouangré, G. Bonkoungou, C. Dubot, M. Windsouri, N Zongo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Leukocytosis medicine.medical_treatment Population Breast Neoplasms Time-to-Treatment Necrosis Young Adult Breast cancer Epidemiology Burkina Faso Medicine Humans Longitudinal Studies education Mastectomy Aged Aged 80 and over Chemotherapy education.field_of_study business.industry General surgery Carcinoma Ductal Breast Palliative Care Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Cancer Anemia Middle Aged medicine.disease University hospital Infectious Diseases Chemotherapy Adjuvant Observational study Female business Median survival |
| Zdroj: | Medecine et sante tropicales. 28(4) |
| ISSN: | 2261-2211 |
| Popis: | Study the epidemiological, diagnostic, and treatment features and outcomes of necrotic breast cancer in women. This observational, longitudinal, and descriptive study covered the period from January, 2011, to the end of May, 2016 at the Surgery and Gynecology Departments of Yalgado Ouedraogo University Hospital and Schiphra Medical Center. The study included all women with necrotic breast cancers. Survival was calculated by the Kaplan Meier method and survival comparison was possible with the log-rank method. A risk of error of 0.05 was allowed. Necrotic cancer accounted for 9.1% of all breast cancers. The median age of the patients was 46 years old. The median interval before consultation was 12.4 months. The histological type was invasive ductal carcinoma in 90.8% of cases. Surgery was performed in 51 patients (52%). It was a palliative (cleaning) procedure in 92.2% of cases. Chemotherapy was performed in 28 patients. Overall survival was 61.8% at 6 months, 39.5% at 1 year, and 9.2% at 3 years. Median survival was 10 months: 13 months for women with surgery and 6 months for those without it (p |
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