in patients with malignancy, the common etiologies of granuloma formation are tumor related sarcoid reaction, sarcoidosis, tuberculosis and other granulomatous diseases. often, the finding of granulomas in malignant patients may obscure the primary malignancy or may mislead towards treatment of infectious and other etiologies. hence, their proper recognition and necessary follow up is needed to...

Dietary and/or environmental factors appear to play a key role in the international variations that exist in breast cancer incidence. The genotoxicity of breast milk extracts is being examined as a possible indicator of in vivo exposure of mammary epithelial cells to DNA-damaging agents. Breast milk samples were obtained from the UK (n = 32), a high risk country, and from Hong Kong (n = 10), In...

background: it is suggested that various forms of tobacco use have some effects on diverse sites of head and neck to develop cancer. material and methods: the study examines data for oral cancer in male subjects, collected from the population registered in cancer registry during the year 2007- 2008. all the data collected were entered into the spreadsheets. the statistical package for social sc...

Breast cancer is a major public health problem for women throughout the world. Every year more than 1.2 million women are diagnosed with breast cancer. The incidence of breast cancer in Pakistan is high compared to other Asian countries and is approximately 2.5 times that in India and Iran (Asif et al., 2014). It has been found to constitute 33% of all cancers in females registered at Nuclear M...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most common female cancer worldwide including India, where advanced stages at diagnosis, and rising incidence and mortality rates, make it essential to understand cancer literacy in women. We conducted a literature review to evaluate the awareness levels of risk factors for breast cancer among Indian women and health professionals. METHODS A structured literatu...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women worldwide and the second most common cancer in females in India. Receptor status may be important for survival. OBJECTIVE To analyse and correlate the clinical and morphological parameters with receptor status in breast carcinoma patients in a tertiary care institution in Southern India. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective...

To prevent new cancers from starting, scientists look at risk factors and protective factors. Anything that increases chance of developing cancer is called a factor; anything decreases your factor. The survival rates breast in India are low because the detection takes place late. only way to change these numbers by increasing awarenessSome for can be avoided, but many cannot. Avoiding may lower...

Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer occurring in females with an estimated burden of 1.38 million (23%) new cases worldwide, in 2008 (692,200 and 691,300 cases in developed and developing countries, respectively) (Ferlay et al., 2010) and ranks second most common cancer overall. About 458,400 deaths were projected because of breast cancer from which 60% of the deaths were repo...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most prevalent malignancy among women with wide differences in clinical profile from region to region. The present study aimed to describe the profile of breast cancer patients attending a tertiary care hospital in Marathwada region of Western India. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this descriptive retrospective study, we reviewed records of pathologically diagnosed p...

Neelam Sood, Nisha Sehrawat* Department of Pathology, Deen Dayal Upadhya Hospital, New Delhi, India The term gestational breast cancer is defined as breast cancer diagnosed during pregnancy and up to 1 year postpartum. Overall incidence rate is 0.7 – 3.8% . These lesions are generally missed on radiology as well as cytology due to physiological and functional changes in mammary gland or misdiag...