الفهرس 
Epidemiology of breast cancerOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
This is a retrospective study carried out at Shebin El-Kom teaching hospital and University Hospital on breast cancer patients from 1991 - 1995.
• The epidemiological results showed that the mean incidence of breast cancer in Shebin El-Kom female population was 36.7100.000 female per year, the ratio of breast cancer to other tumours 25.1 % and male breast cancer was 1.8% of female breast cancer.
• The peak age was between 40 - 49 years and the mean age 42 years.
The breast self examination was very low (4.8%).
• Site distribution : there was predominance on the left side (54.8%) and the most affected part was upper lateral quadrant (67.4%).
• Size distribution was mainly between 2 - 5 cm and mean size was 4.9 cm.
• 66.3% of our patients had their tumours in T3N1MO and the main histopathological type was infiltrating duct carcinoma (77.7%).