Five years experience of carcinoma breast

ABSTRACT

To evaluate the presentation, staging and histology of carcinoma breast patients admitted over a period of five years A retrospective analytical study was conducted at surgical unit two, Civil Hospital Karachi over a period of five years from October 2001 to October 2006. Eighty five female patients with biopsy proven carcinoma breast admitted and operated, were included in the study. 43.5% patients were under the age of 45 years. 4.7%had family history, 49.4%were premenopausal, none had history of oral contraceptive intake. 84.7% had breast fed their siblings, 12% were nulliparous. 29.4% had skin involvement at presentation; nipple retraction was seen in 23.5%. 90.5% had infiltrating ductal carcinoma with 58.8% having histological involvement of axillary lymph nodes. 50% had stage 3 and 41% stage 2 cancers. The risk / predisposing factors for carcinoma breast were not significantly present in our study population. Most of the patients at presentation had stage two and three carcinoma, with the predominant cancer type being infiltrating ductal carcinoma