Mere word, “cancer” to a common man is terrifying irrespective of their socioeconomic and educational background. In 2012, cancer incidence in India was 1.01 million, which is projected to increase to 1.4 million by 2025.[1] In men, lung, esophagus, prostate, stomach, oral and pharyngeal cancers predominate, while in women, cervical and breast cancers predominate followed by oral, stomach and e...

Breast is the second commonest site involved by cancer in Indian women. It is the commonest cause of death in many developed countries in middle aged women and is becoming frequent in developing countries. Breast cancer is probably the most feared cancer in women because of its frequency and its psychological impact. Psychological trauma has lessened in recent years because of earlier diagnosis...

introduction: gail model is one of the most important models for the evaluation of breast cancer risk between us white females. according to genetic diversity, there is a possibility of affecting the efficiency of the gail model in risk assessment of breast cancer among iranian populations. in this study, the gail model efficiency in specifying the risk of breast cancer in iranian population wa...

Incidence rates of breast cancer are rising and mortality rates are proportionally high in Arab countries compared to rates in developed countries. The common late diagnosis among Arab women has been related to the low participation rates of Arab women in breast cancer screening activities (Donnelly et al., 2012). In Egypt, breast cancer is still considered number one killing cancer in females ...

Breast cancer (BC) is a form of cancer in the glandular breast tissue. In India, women diagnosed with carcinoma of the breast is on an average of 80,000 and women die of this disease every year is 40,000, and it is marked as the second most common cancer among Indian women (19%) after cervical cancer (30%) (Saxena et al. 2006). For the development of breast and ovarian cancers there may be seve...

ABSTRACT           Breast cancer remains the most common cancer of women and one of the most common causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. In spite of major advances in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, the incidence of breast cancer remains high and the treatment of metastatic breast cancer remains challenging. This review presents an over...

objective: the incidence of breast cancer is approximately one million which makes this cancer one of the most common among women worldwide. breast cancer comprises 7% of the total death rate caused by cancers. several strategies that use tumor-associated antigen (taa) vaccination and early detection of breast cancer are clinically being developed. breast cancer is caused by increased over expr...

background & aim: evaluation of prevalence of risk factors for breast cancer in different regions of iran and identification of their significant effect on this disease can promote the prevention and reduction of breast cancer incidence. therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the prevalence, demographic characteristics, and frequency of the risk factors of breast cancer during 10 years. method...

Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor among women. It accounts for 22% of all female cancers; more than twice the prevalence of cancer in women at any other site. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is now the globally accepted methodology for detection of estrogen (ER) and progesterone (PR) receptors in breast carcinomas. The present study is designed for further insight into age and biology...