Breast biopsy: the harvesting of Lymph Nodes Presenting as Lumps in a Nigerian Community indicates that Preventive Cancer Education is Succeeding

It has been suggested that establishing a pathology data pool promotes epidemiological analysis. A personal such data pool established among the Ibos of Nigeria covering 30 years revealed that 124 females presented with breast lumps on anticipating cancer. However, these proved to be just lymph nodes. On analysis, there were patterns that showed a growing awareness of the necessity for self breast examination in this community during the succeeding decades. Indeed, from the accumulated details, it is hypothesized that, in general, there are 3 biopsy indices of breast cancer awareness, namely, temporal trend of such awareness, eagerness in presenting lumps, and smallness of the delineated lesions. In all probability, these three parameters are research worthy epidemiologically all over the world.