Breast cancer awareness among women living in Meena District in Aden

The aim of this study is to determine the behaviors of women towards the method of early detection of breast cancer in Aden. It is a cross-sectional study conducted by direct interview with 157 women living in Meena districts in Aden. One hundred and fifty seven women, age between 20 to 60 years with mean age 37 years, participated in the study; the university graduates 54 [34.4%] secondary school graduates 33 [21%], primary school 26 [16.6%] and illiterates 44 [28%]. The knowledge of breast cancer was most frequently obtained from the media in all groups of women, except 11% of the illiterate women who had no knowledge of breast cancer. The overall majority of women were not performing breast self-examination .The likelihood of detecting a mass and not visiting doctor was frequent among the illiterates and secondary school graduates 66%and 48% respectively. The knowledge of curability of breast cancer when detected early was 2% in the illiterate women compared to 18.2 % in secondary graduates, 12% in primary, and 11% in university graduates. It is concluded that the majority of women do not perform self breast examination and only few have some knowledge about it when detected early breast cancer is curable.

Gastric cancer in Aden

This study is designed to determine the most frequent morphological presentation of gastric cancer in relation to sex. During the period of 5 years, from June 2002 to June 2007, 50 patients had gastrectomy performed for gastric cancer, previously diagnosed by endoscopy biopsy. Partial gastrectomy was performed in 86% of the patients with gastric cancer, and total gastrectomy was 14%. The age range was from 40 to 75 years, with the mean age 62. The most frequent age group affected with gastric cancer was 50-69 in females and 70 and above in males. The tumoral mass location was predominant in the antral 56%. Cardial was the second frequent location in both sexes 32%. The least frequent location was the body [4%] of total cases and all patients were male. The Bor 2as the most common mode of growth in both male and female representing 52% followed by Bor [4. 28%] the least frequent is Bor 1 [20%]. In the microscope diagnosis using Lauren histological classification, intestinal adenocarcinoma is the most common type occurring in 76% of all patients. The diffuse, poorly differentiated adenocarcinoimaVas 16.0%; all patients were males. Non Hodgkin's lymphoma is the less frequent type of gastric cancer and represented 8%. of all cases. Early gastric cancer was 8.0% cases and all patients were males. Advance state of gastric cancer with mucularis invasion was more common in female patients, while most of male patients have cancer infiltration up to the serosa at [he time of diagnosis .The most frequent gastric cancer is intestinal adenocarcinoma; males are predominantly affected. The diffuse poorly differentiated adenocarcinoima affected only male patients. The most frequent location of the gastric cancer is distal area in the form of ulcerative mass. The majority of cases are detected in advance state of cancer

Uterine cervix diseases

To determine the commonest type of uterine cervix lesion and at which level are the women with uterine cervix cancer diagnosed. This is a retrospective study of 325 patients admitted in Al Wahda and Aden Teaching Hospitals with uterine cervix lesion during the period of 9 years, from January 1996 to January 2005. Records of patients who had histopathology result of punch biopsy of the uterine cervix were retrospectively reviewed. Inflammation is most common and it is present in all age groups representing 46.1°/o. And those associated with morphological changes of flat condyloma are 6.1% of the cases. Cervical intraepithelial neoplastic [CIN] represents 5.5% and predominant between 30.39 years. While Invasive carcinoma is more frequent in older women at 50 years and above is 16.346. No case of invasive carcinoma detected below 40 years. Endocervical polyp is 269bof cases from the total. The results of this study concluded that inflammation is the most frequent disease and the majority- of women with uterine cervix cancer was diagnosed in invasive stage and only few with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia stage

spectrum of histopathological findings in endometrial curettage submitted from infertile women

This is a retrospective study done on 523 consecutive women with infertility during for period from 1991 up to 1995. Our purpose of this study is to know the most frequent type of infertility, endometrial changes and the age group affected. We found that the primary infertility is the most common and represented 70.17% of the cases, while secondary infertility is 29.83%. The most predominant histopathological finding in both types of infertility is secretary endometrium which is 61.57%, followed by proliferative endometrium 20.46% then endometrial hyperplasia 8.60%. The majority of the women in our study group did not have their age specified. They represent 56.98% of all women under study. Most of the primary infertility cases were in the 20 age group [21.61%] and secondary infertility in 30 age group [6.50%]. We concluded that primary infertility is the most common type of infertility and it affects the younger age group. The highest percentages of these women have ovulation