According to the data from GLOBACON 2020, breast cancer comprised 13.5% of the total cancer cases in India. The World Cancer Report 2020 emphasises that early detection is the most effective intervention for controlling breast cancer. This article highlights the signs and symptoms of breast cancer,...
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer among women in India and accounts for 7% of global burden of breast cancer and one-fifth of all cancers among women in India. Over 90,000 new cancer cases are estimated to occur this year and over 50,000 women are estimated to die of it ...
Steck, et al., Case-control study of breast cancer in India: role of PERIOD3 clock gene length polymorphism and chronotype, Cancer Investig. 32 (2014) 321e329.Wirth MD, Burch JB, Hebert JR, Kowtal P, Mehrotra- Kapoor A, Steck SE, Hurley TG, Gupta PC, Pednekar MS, Youngstedt SD, ...
Breast cancer is the commonest malignant disease in Indian women; rapid westernization and changes in life style are some of the contributing factors. Younger age, late presentation (larger tumours, higher number of axillary lymph nodes, poor tumour grade) and low rates of hormone receptor-positivi...
India, has the third highest breast cancer cases worldwide; accounting 8.4% of 2.3 million breast cancer cases [25]. However, the estimates are at lower side owing to low screening (only 0.9% of women were ever screened) for breast cancer [2]. The breast cancer treatment is also very li...
Background Breast cancer is the most common female cancer worldwide including India, where advanced stages at diagnosis, and rising incidence and mortality rates, make it essential to understand cancer literacy in women. We conducted a literature review to evaluate the awareness levels of risk factor...
All BC cases enrolled in the study were histologically confirmed. Female visitors aged 20–69 years, with no history of cancer, and who were accompanying cancer patients of any primary site, were eligible for inclusion as controls. Controls that were unrelated to BC patients were gen- otyped ...
Breast Cancer Screening: Guidelines and Opportunities for Gynecologists Breast cancer is the most common cancer worldwide and is the leading cause of deaths from cancer among women. It accounts for 12% of all cancer cases world... A Nigam,N Singhal - 《Journal of Colposcopy & Lower Genital Tr...
Breast cancer is the most common female cancer worldwide including India, where advanced stages at diagnosis, and rising incidence and mortality rates, make it essential to understand cancer literacy in women. We conducted a literature review to evaluate the awareness levels of risk factors for bre...
An age– period–cohort (APC) analysis of breast, ovarian and cervical cancer incidence trends was conducted, using the population-based cancer registry data in Mumbai, India over a 30-year period, 1976–2005. MATERIALS AND METHODS Incidence All incident cases of breast, ovarian and cervical ...