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Breast cancer in Nigeria
Author(s) -
Chiedozi L. Chukwuma
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(19850201)55:3<653::aid-cncr2820550330>3.0.co;2-6
Subject(s) - nigerians , medicine , anaplasia , breast cancer , disease , benin city , presentation (obstetrics) , gynecology , cancer , obstetrics , teaching hospital , family medicine , pathology , political science , law
Breast cancer as seen in 116 Nigerian women over a 5‐year period, 1974 to 1979, at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin, Nigeria, is presented. The disease occurs one decade earlier in Nigerians and is mainly a disease of premenopausal and perimenopausal women. Reflecting their relative youthfulness, more than 10% of them are pregnant or lactating on presentation. The most common histologioc finding is anaplasia with very unfavorable histological grade. Breast cancer does not seem to have a different biologic behaviour in Nigerians, but it carries a truly bleak prognosis because many of the patients present with incurable disease that is close to its end stages.