RESUMO
Two hundred forty two breast malignancies, all in women, including 238 carcinomas and four sarcomas, were screened in surgical pathologic materials from 1964-1976 in Surinam (population 385,000). The histologic types were similar to those generally seen. The mean age was 55.1 years and the range 24 to 89 years; 45.8% of cases came from the Creole population. The incidence in this period is calculated at 9.5/100,000.
PIP: A screening of pathology specimens at the Academic Hospital in Surinam (population, 385,000) revealed 245 breast malignancies, all in women, amounting to an incidence of 9.5 cases of breast carcinoma/100,000 total female population. 238 malignancies were carcinomas, and 4 were sarcomas durng this screening period from 1964-1976. Histological types included scirrhous (99), medullary (11), infiltrating comedo (9), infiltrating papillary (2), unclassified infiltrating duct (100), intraduct (3), infiltrating lobular (8), and undifferentiated (6). The largest numbers of breast carcinomas were in the Creoles (109, 45.8%), compared with 44 (18.5%) in Surinamers, 30 (12.6%) in Hindostanis, 27 (11.3%) in Indonesians, 12 (5%) in Europeans, 4 (1.7%) in Chinese, 2 (.8%) in Bush Negroes, and 10 (4.2%) in other ethnic groups. The mean age was 55.1 years and the range was from 24-89 years.