BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer in women globally and represents the second leading cause of cancer death among women (after lung cancer). India is going through epidemiologic transition. It is reported that the incidence of breast cancer is rising rapidly as a result of changes in reproductive risk factors, dietary habits and increasing life expectancy, acting in concert w...

Early detection of Breast Cancer is currently emerging as a big clinical entity requiring a non invasive, radiation less, harmless, cost effective diagnostic technique. Survival is improved if detected early. Breast Cancer is the second most common cancer in India. Health corporate system of India is urgently requiring a cost effective, noninvasive novel technique like “Electrical Impedance Tom...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among females in India, as per urban cancer registries. The Annual Age Adjusted Rate (AAR) varies from 30 per 100,000 in Mumbai to 33.4 per 100,000 in Delhi (Manoharan et al., 2010). LABC refers to large breast tumors (>5 cm) associated with either skin/ chest wall involvement or with fixed axillary lymph nodes or spread to ipsilateral internal mammary or...

BACKGROUND Population-based studies describing the association between education and cancer incidence has not yet been reported from India. METHODS Information on the educational attainment of 4417 cancer cases aged 14 years and above, diagnosed during 2003-2006 in Dindigul district, Tamil Nadu, India, was obtained from the Dindigul Ambilikkai Cancer Registry, which registers invasive cancer ...

Breast cancer is the commonest cancer among females worldwide as well as in India, accounting for 27% of all cancer and 21% of cancer related deaths in India [1]. Over last few decades, better understanding of disease biology, early detection and advances in treatment techniques have led to improved outcomes. Newer approaches are being studied to improve treatment outcome with decreased treatme...

The upward trend in breast cancer globally and in India has become a matter of great concern. Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women globally. The objective of the authors’ study was to explore the various risk factors of breast cancer in among women in an Indian context. A search was performed using the search engine Pubmed during years 2005-2011 using key words risk factor an...

PURPOSE There is considerable variation in prevalence rates of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) reported by various studies from India. We performed a systematic review and literature-based meta-analysis of these studies. METHODS We searched databases of Medline, Scopus, EMBASE, and Web of Science for studies that reported on the prevalence of TNBC in India that were published between Jan...

Background: India is facing challenging situation because the incidence of breast cancer has increased by 14% and mortality rate 11.1%. Breast- i a new tool for effective screening, especially detecting both non-palpable very small lesions often missed Clinical Breast Examination (CBE). This device expected to help in tiny outpatient clinic itself, helping reducing morbidity associated with lat...

Estrogen receptor (ER) status is an important biomarker in defining subtypes of breast cancer differing in antihormonal therapy response, risk factors and prognosis. However, little is known about association of ER status with various risk factors in the developing world. Our case-control study done in Kerala, India looked at the associations of ER status and risk factors of breast cancer. From...

background: exposure to endogenous hormones such as estrogen is known as a lifetime breast cancer (bc) risk factor. polymorphisms in genes that are involved in the steroidogenic process, such as cytochrome p450c17alpha ( cyp17) , affect individuals’ susceptibility to bc. in iran, the highest incident of bc is among young women. this study aimed to find prevalence of single nucleotide polymorphi...