Breast Care and Breast Cancer Outcomes: A Community Hospital Based Study from India
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چکیده
Breast cancer has become an important public health problem and is the second most common cause of cancer incidence (115,251 cases) and cancer deaths (53,592 deaths) in women in India (Ferlay et al., 2010), accounting for an estimated 22% of cancer cases and 17% of the cancer deaths annually in women in India. Despite the fact that India contributes 8% of global burden of disease, there are no large-scale breast screening programs in the country or public health policies aiming at effective integration of awareness and screening in any region of India. More than 50-80% of breast cancer patients in different regions of India present in advanced clinical stages with less than half of the patients surviving longer than 5 years (Sankaranarayanan et al., 2011). Improved awareness, infrastructure, and efficient health services, for early detection and treatment of breast cancers leading to
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