Association between Triple-Negative Breast Cancer and Socioeconomic and Cultural Factors in Southeast Anatolia: A Single-Center Experience

Objective: Triple-negative breast cancers (TNBCs) are associated with younger age, advanced stage at diagnosis, ethnicity, lower socioeconomic status (SES), and poor prognosis. The aim of the study was to investigate clinicopathologic features TNBC patients living in Southeastern Anatolia, association between cultural factors TNBC. 
 Material Methods: A total 875 women were included study. effects on evaluated. SES categorized as higher according educational health insurance status, household income. Patients’ age area (rural or urban), SES, ethnicity (Arabic, Armenian, Kurdish, Turkish) recorded. Results: Median 47 (20-85) 10% (n=87) diagnosed rates ≤40 years. Younger Arabic Kurdish ethnicities Conclusion: Although majority cancer our region premenopausal, rate among them found be than general western countries. Socioeconomic may affect tumor biology prognosis disease In study, worse