Diagnosis characteristics features in breast cancer

Representing about 20% of all woman's cancers in all the world, breast cancer is a multifactorial disease with unknown mechanism facts which may explain the significant growth of incidence and mortality in the last few years. In the absence of screening program in majority cases the diagnosis is discovered too late. In this present study we have made a retrospective study on 487 patients during 1996-2000 at the 1st Surgical Clinic from Craiova. The purpose of this study was the defining of the population with an increased risk which has to be monitorized. In order to accomplish it, we have carefully supervised some of clinical parameters: sex, age, social environment, physiological and pathological antecedents, heredocolateral antecedents, and the constitutional type. The study method was the comparative analysis, and the evaluation according to the modern statistical methods. The risk factors, which can be surely used in defining the groups of population with an increased risk, which should be supervised for an active discover of breast cancer, as the resulted from our study, are: the age decades V, VI, and VII with maximum incidence in subgroups 45-49 and 60-64 years old; early monarch (67.15%); delayed menopause, over 50 years old (84.4%); long exposure to sexual hormones during the reproductive period (the period of menstrual cyclicity over 32 years old); the pathology of the benign tumor, the biggest risk belonging to the proliferative tumours (intraductal papiloma); hyperestrogenism. The only improving method of the therapeutical results in breast cancer is an early discover of it, which can be accomplished only by the implementation of a national program of active discover, in which the essential part belongs to the primary care helped by a widely-broadcast medical education.