Two thousand and ninety five subjects were seen over the one year period. Mean age was 34 + 12 years. Mean age at menarche was at 14.3 + 1.7 years; mean parity was 3.6 +2.6. Two thousand and thirty six subjects (97.2) had some knowledge about breast cancer; 1;269 (60.5) had no formal education; 881(42.1) were petty traders while 501(23.9) were full time housewives. Four hundred and seventy (22.4) had a positive familyhistory of breast disease; 437 (20.9) had history of use of oral contraceptives; and 9 (0.4) had a previous breastbiopsy. Four hundred and sixty one (22.0) complained of breast discomfort; 184 (8.8) complained of breast lumps; but only 95 (4.6) of them had lump on clinical breast examination; while a further 8 (0.4) lumps were found on breast imaging. One thousand nine hundred (90.7) had normal breastscreening results; 166 (7.9) had benign breast diseases and 29 (1.4) had breast cancer.
Conclusion:
Knowledge about breast cancer was high because of prior campaigns and should be encouraged. Proportion of subjects with breast cancer is low even though many complained of breast lumps on presentation. Majority of the lumps were found at clinical breast examination while mammogram had a very low yield. A treatmentarmneeds to be incorporated into the screening program to demonstrate survival benefit