Relationship of breast cancer types with tissue density and patient age, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2012-2020

Relationship of breast cancer types with tissue density and patient age, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2012-2020 WCRJ 2022; 9: e2451
DOI: 10.32113/wcrj_202212_2451

  Topic: Breast cancer     Category:

Alshakarh F., Aldahash S. Public Health Operations Center, Public Health Agency, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia , Algaali K. Public Health Operations Center, Public Health Agency, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia , Abd-Ellatif E. E. Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt Abstract Objective: This study aims to characterize the types of breast cancer among women in Riyadh and evaluate the association between breast cancer types, breast tissue density, and age.

Patients and Methods: This cross-sectional study included 524 female cancer patients aged 18 years with histologically or radiologically confirmed diagnoses from 2012 to 2020. Age, breast density, cancer type, TNM staging, radiographic grade, presence or absence of calcification, histological grading, and surgery type were extracted from the cancer program’s electronic reporting system.

Results: We observed a significant association between type of cancer and age (p=0.006), stage of cancer (p<0.0001), histologic grade (p=0.004), and presence of calcifications (p=0.000). While the younger patients aged <50 had heterogeneously dense breasts, scattered areas of fibro glandular density were common among older patients (p=0.004). Multinomial logistic regression analysis showed that the odds of patients having ductal carcinoma were 11 times higher in patients with Grade I cancer (p=0.011) and three times higher in those with Grade II cancer (p=0.021). The absence of calcifications decreased the odds of ductal carcinoma in situ (p=0.000).

Conclusions: We observed a significant relationship between breast cancer type with age and stage of cancer. Although breast density was associated with age, it was independent of cancer type.

To cite this article Alshakarh F., Aldahash S. Public Health Operations Center, Public Health Agency, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia , Algaali K. Public Health Operations Center, Public Health Agency, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia , Abd-Ellatif E. E. Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt Relationship of breast cancer types with tissue density and patient age, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2012-2020

WCRJ 2022; 9: e2451
DOI: 10.32113/wcrj_202212_2451

Publication History

Submission date: 16 Sep 2022

Revised on: 10 Oct 2022

Accepted on: 25 Nov 2022

Published online: 07 Dec 2022

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

留言 (0)

沒有登入
gif