Epidemiologic features of breast cancer A retrospective study 1 the odd risk of the upper socioeconomic group for cancer breast

ABSTRACT

The index sample was female patients who attended the Alexandria University Main Hospital at the surgical and radiotherapy departments as well as the medical Research Institute during the year 1982-1983 [n=174]. The control group included 171 patients from the same hospitals thouroughly examined to exclude the presence of breast lump. The aim of this work is to study the effect of education and occupation of women on breast cancer risk. The study revealed that B.C. risk was significantly higher among educated working women, where the odd ratio was three times higher for working status than for education