The urban cancer registries at 5 metropolitan cities located at Bangalore, Bhopal, Chennai and Mumbai in India are important sources of data regarding breast cancer in India (Kamarana et al., 2003). The data from these registries tend to focus greatly on the cancers near surrounding urban areas and have very limited inclusion of rural geographic areas (Babu, 2009). The pooled data on the number...

Breast cancer is one of the leading cancers for women in developed countries including India. It is the second most common cause of cancer death in women. The high incidence of breast cancer in women has increased significantly in the last years. In this paper we have discussed various data mining approaches that have been utilized for breast cancer diagnosis and prognosis. Breast Cancer Diagno...

background : breast cancer is one of the most frequent malignancies among iranian women. triple-negative breast cancer (tnbc) is referred to a type of breast cancer which three biomarkers of estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (her2), are negative. materials and methods: in this case control study, immunohistopathologic data of patients with tn...

background: inflammatory breast cancer (ibc), a subgroup of locally advanced breast cancer (labc), is diagnosed based on clinical findings, and seems to be different from other types of labc. the purpose of this study was to compare clinicopathological characteristics and outcomes between inflammatory and non-inflammatory labc patients at breast cancer research center (bcrc), tehran, iran. meth...

India with a population of 1.2 billion is the most populous democracy in the world. India is a pluralistic, multilingual, and multiethnic society. It includes over 15 native languages with more than 70 dialects (Government of India: Office of Registrar General, 2010). Although the focus of public health has been mostly on infectious diseases in the developing countries, non communicable disease...

India with a population of 1.2 billion is the most populous democracy in the world. India is a pluralistic, multilingual, and multiethnic society. It includes over 15 native languages with more than 70 dialects (Government of India: Office of Registrar General, 2010). Although the focus of public health has been mostly on infectious diseases in the developing countries, non communicable disease...

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer among women in India, following cancer of the uterine cervix. Presently, 75,000 new cases are reported annually and account for 19-34% of all cancer cases among women nationally (ICMR 1989; Badwe et al., 1990; Murthy et al., 1990; ICMR 2001; Siddqi et al., 2001; Saxena et al., 2005). In the central region of India where this study was undertaken, 5...

BACKGROUND Invasion of breast cancer cells into blood and lymphatic vessels is one of the most important steps for metastasis. In this study the prognostic relevance of lymphangiogenesis and lymphovascular invasion (LVI) in breast cancer patients was evaluated in terms of survival. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective study concerned 518 breast cancer patients who were treated at Departme...

Breast cancer is one of the major causes for the increased mortality among women especially in developed countries. It is second most common cancer in women. The World Health Organization’s International estimated that more than 1, 50,000 women worldwide die of breast cancer in year. In India, breast cancer accounts for 23% of all the female cancer death followed by cervical cancer which accoun...

breast conservation surgery combined with radiation therapy is now an accepted option for the treatment of early breast cancer. so we decided to evaluate the results of such treatment in our first group of patients treated by this method. from 1992 to 1996 , one hundred patients with stage i and ii breast cancer treated with breast conservative surgery (lumpectomy or quadrantectomy). were irrad...