Women health promotion by improving cancer breast identification of risk factors

ABSTRACT

The objective of the study was to assess women attended to gynaecology, breast clinic, and mammogram unit at Ain Shams University Hospitals to assess the risk factors for detection of breast cancer. The total sample was 470 selected randomly Egyptian women attended the clinics from 15 September 2003 to 15 February 2004 for 6 months. The authors provided them counseling guidelines about steps of health promotion for those women. The mean age X = 35.3 years old with standard deviation [S.D.] +/- 7.1. Most of risk factors appeared in between the diagnosed cases group as 13.3% of cases have early menarche, obesity, positive family history and never lactating, while 26.5% suffered obesity from class II to III and 46.7% of the diagnosed cases were using hormonal contraceptive more than 10 years. The present study recommended guidelines for improving women health through lowering the incidence of cancer breast, decreasing its morbidity and mortality by eliminating risk factors if possible, improving early detection and management. Continued efforts are needed to increase the availability of high-quality mammography and treatment to all segments of the population. Adopting more conserving policies in treating early cancer breast will encourage the population to detect cancer breast earlier