Aetiological factors in breast cancer in Pakistani women

A preliminary report of 101 cases of breast cancer treated by the authors in 8 years is presented. Breast cancer occurs more commonly in low socio-economic group, in young females, in the women who had their first delivery earlier than general population and had late menopause, multiparous women suffer more often from the breast cancer in our study especially those women who breastfed their children more and for the longer period. The authors have postulated that our cancers in Pakistani women are different from the West, the a etiological factor might be the different genetic origin and having more prolactin receptors in Pakistani women with breast cancer