DOI: 10.36347/sasjm.2019.v05i12.002

Pages: 194-197

Objective: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women and one of the most important causes of death among them. Aim: Detecting breast cancer in Oncology teaching hospital in medical city in Baghdad. Methods: This is a cross sectional study. Medical notes and histo-pathological reports of patients with confirmed diagnosis of breast cancer between January 2018 to January 2019, were reviewed for age and Site. Results: A total of (728) patients were included in this study. The ages which show high prevalence were (41-60) years (x²=6.483 p< 0.01) (62.6%) and (61- 80) years (x²= 8.314 p< 0.01) (21.1%) which show significant relationship between age and breast cancer. Most cases were detected in Baghdad (x²= 9.206, p< 0.01) (78.7%), then Dyala (x²=5.344, p<0.05) (7.2%) and Wasit (x²= 4.372, p< 0.05) (5.2%) site show significant role on breast Cancer. Conclusions: Breast cancer increased in Iraqi females especially in the last few years due to deterioration of health status in Iraq and lack of health awareness, beside the physical destitution which help in increasing the incidence of this type of cancer among Iraqi females.