Risk factors of carcinoma breast in younger age group females

ABSTRACT

A prospective study on carcinoma breast was carried out at Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur from July 1997 to June 2000 and a total of 75 cases were detected. Of these thirty patients [40 percent] work between age of 25-30 years, an uncommon age group. The common risk factors were absent; all belonged to poor socioeconomic group. Eighty percent of them were from rural area related to cultivation of cotton crop, where use of organophosphorus compounds as pesticides are common. Twenty [67 percent] presented with lump breast, 17 percent with ulceration and 13 percent had nipple discharge. Upper outer quadrant was involved in 23 percent, IOQ in 17 percent, IOQ in 13 percent and two quadrants in 27 percent. Duration of symptoms was less than six months in 60 percent of young patients. Most patients [90 percent] were in stage II and III at presentation. The tumor in these patients behaved aggressively. Intraductal carcinoma was found in 80 percent of patients