Study Of Palmar Patterns In Carcinoma Breast Patients Of Central India

ABSTRACT

Background: Breast cancer is very common among females these days, it’s occurrence has a strong genetic basiswhich has been already established. Palmar patterns also develop under genetic control during early developmentalmost at the same period when the mammary buds develop in intrauterine life. And they do not get alteredsignificantly after that, and thus remains almost constant during rest of the life. So these patterns may beassessed as a non-invasive anatomical marker to find the risk of developing breast cancer later in life.Methodology: In this study assessment of the palmar patterns of both hands of 109 female breast cancerpatients were taken and compared with the patterns of 109 age matched normal healthy females. The Patternswere obtained by Ink method in an A4 size white paper. Palmar ridge count (a-b ridge count), palmar angles ( atdangle and adt angle) of both the groups was measured and analysed.Results: On statistical analysis it was observed that mean a-b ridge count of right and left hands of cases weresignificantly lower when compared with the mean a-b ridge count of right and left hands of the normal healthyfemales respectively in Madhya Pradesh.Conclusion: The palmar ridge counts are significantly associated with breast cancer and in a highly populatedcountry like India with limited medical resources, it may be employed as an inexpensive and effective tool forscreening the high-risk population for breast cancer