BACKGROUND Breast cancer in developing countries is on the rise. There are currently no guidelines to screen women at risk in India. Since mammography in the western world is a well-accepted screening tool to prevent late presentation of breast cancer and improve mortality, it is intuitive to adopt mammography as a screening tool of choice. However, it is expensive and fraught with logistical i...

Evaluation of the Adverse Effects Monoclonal Antibodies in Breast Cancer Treatment a Tertiary Care Hospital Bengaluru, India, 2020

© 2017 Indian Journal of Anaesthesia | Published by Wolters Kluwer ‐ Medknow Breast cancer is increasingly becoming the most common cancer among females in India. It accounts for around 25%–32% of all female cancers in India as per the National Cancer Registry.[1] Advances in oncology have led to effective treatment of breast cancers. Availability of better chemotherapeutic agents has made brea...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women worldwide. In India, the incidence rate of breast cancer is found to be 25.8/10,000 females. The statistics for Kerala, India, is 30.5 in urban areas and 19.8 in rural areas. Cancer and treatment-related symptoms are major stressors in patients with breast cancer undergoing treatment for the disease. Depression is a preva...

the present research is a field study in order to investigate scale and ways of doing breast self examination (bse). 270 nurses employed by the medical sciences university’s hospitals related to the ministry of health, and medical education in city of tehran are selected and involved in research on the basis of simple random sampling. the data collection tool was a protrayed questionnaire which...

According to World Cancer Research Fund International, the cancer cases around the world was estimated as 12.7 million in 2008, and is expected to rise to 21 million by 2030. in Denmark. In Denmark, the number of people affected per 100,000 was 326, in 2008. The age standardized rate was at least 300 per 100,000 for Denmark, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, France and United States of ...

PURPOSE To examine and reconcile differences in incidence rates and stage-at-initial-presentation of prostate and breast cancers in India, a country in epidemiologic transition. METHODS Age-adjusted prostate and female breast cancer incidence rates and proportion of cases by stage-at-diagnosis were compared. Data were derived from the National Cancer Registry Program of India, other Indian re...

In India the incidence of breast cancer is on the rise and it is rapidly becoming the number one cancer in females, pushing cervical cancer to the second spot. The contribution of BRCA2 to the development of the sporadic form of breast cancer remains undefined. To assess the role of SNPs in exon 8 of the BRCA2 gene in breast cancer development in India, a population-based study was here carried...

Breast cancer is the commonest among women globally. According to World Health Organization, more than twenty lakh females were diagnosed with breast in 2020. The Globocan data 2020 estimates that, India, accounted for 13.5% of all and around 10.6% trends this disease rising younger Indian women. epidemiological data, 25 every one develop cancer. By 2030, carcinoma will cause most deaths India ...

One in ten of all new cancers diagnosed worldwide each year are carcinomas of the female breast, and it is principle cause of death from cancer among women globally. The age standardized incidence rate across the world is 43.3 per 100,000 female population. In India it was found to be 25.8 per 100,000 females (Globocan, 2012). The rise in incidence of 0.5-2% per annum has been seen across all r...