Epidemiological trend of breast cancer in Iraq

ABSTRACT

To establish the risk factors in patients with breast cancer in Iraq, we conducted this case-control study at the institute of Radiation and Nuvlear Medicine. One results showed that breast cancer is a disease of middle age attacks women who were not lactated, menstruated at younger age, having a low birth rate, use contractive pills and it causes a severe psychological reactions. Breast cancer is related to the disease of familial inheritance and is clustered in certain socio-educational status and ethnic groups in Iraq. According to the results reported in this study, the distribution pattern of breast cancer and its risk and protective factors in Iraq are similar to that reported elsewhere and an intensive teaching programme is recommended since more than half of the reported cases were presented with metastases