Breast cancer in young women
West Indian med. j
; 47(suppl. 3): 43-4, July 1998.
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| ID: med-1685
Biblioteca responsable:
JM3.1
Ubicación: JM3.1; R18.W4
ABSTRACT
Breast cancer is now the commonest malignancy among females in Jamaica. In 1985 a Breast Cancer clinic was established at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) and, because young age has been suggested to be an adverse prognostic factor, data collected during the first five years were analysed to establish the pattern of this disease in young women. Thirty of the 227 female patients seen at the clinic during this period were under age 40. Information was insufficient in one case and the remaining 29 formed the study group. Only three patients were less than 30 years of age, 15 being aged 35 to 39 years. Family history was negative in 16 of 24 cases. In 28 patients presentation was related to the finding of a mass. Treatment was by surgery with or without adjunctive therapy. Eight patients were assessed as stage I, eleven were stage II and nine were stage III. Of the 20 patients for less than five years, there were three deaths and eight were distant metastases. Two of the other nine patients had distant metastases. There may be several reasons including difficulty in accessing health care, attitudes to health care that delay diagnosis, and race, why in so many of the study group the presenting disease was advanced, but no information was available to suggest what role these factors might have played in our patients.(AU)
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MedCarib
Asunto principal:
Neoplasias de la Mama
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Caribe ingles
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Jamaica
Idioma:
En
Revista:
West Indian med. j
Año:
1998
Tipo del documento:
Article