DOI: 10.36347/sasjs

Pages: 136-141

This study was carried out to assess the probable risk factors in patients residing in the city of Kutahya diagnosed with breast cancer, to determine the relation among them and to analyse the habits of the patients, any accompanying disease, drug use and drug-related adverse effects. The study was conducted on 45 female patients diagnosed with breast cancer who had applied to Dumlupınar University Medical Faculty Evliya Çelebi Education and Research Hospital in the city of Kutahya between 1st January 2011 and 31st December 2013. The subjects were called at their phone numbers in their files and the information was collected through face to face interview. The patients’ age, gender, metastasis, appetite, smoking/drinking habits, genetic history, use of oral contraceptives, accompanying diseases, tumour size, previous treatments and their side-effects were analysed retrospectively out of their follow-up files. Descriptive statistics were conducted on the age, menstruation and menopause age and the number of children of the 45 patients with breast cancer in the city of Kütahya .The patient mean age was 59,8 (31-87 year) in cancer group, mean number of childeren was 2,73.