Epidemiology of breast cancer in Europe and Africa

GO Abdulrahman, GA Rahman - Journal of cancer …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Breast cancer continues to remain the most lethal malignancy in women across the world.
This study reviews some of the epidemiological similarities and differences in breast cancer …

BRCA Genetic Screening in Middle Eastern and North African: Mutational Spectrum and Founder BRCA1 Mutation (c.798_799delTT) in North African

A Laraqui, N Uhrhammer, H El Rhaffouli… - Disease …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background. The contribution of BRCA1 mutations to both hereditary and sporadic breast
and ovarian cancer (HBOC) has not yet been thoroughly investigated in MENA. Methods. To …

Breast cancer in Iraq, incidence trends from 2000-2009

MMY Al-Hashimi, XJ Wang - Asian Pacific Journal of cancer …, 2014 - koreascience.kr
Background: Breast cancer is the most frequent malignancy of women worldwide. In Iraq,
breast cancer ranks first among cancers diagnosed in women but no studies have been …

[HTML][HTML] Histological classification, grading, staging, and prognostic indexing of female breast cancer in an African population: A 10-year retrospective study

WA Oluogun, KA Adedokun, MA Oyenike… - … journal of health …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Breast cancer (BC) is a heterogeneous disease characterized with diverse
genetic and ethnic/racial variations that may influence tumor characteristics and prognosis …

[HTML][HTML] Survival outcomes of breast cancer in Ghana: an analysis of clinicopathological features

AC Mensah, J Yarney, SK Nokoe, S Opoku… - Open Access Library …, 2016 - scirp.org
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer
death in female's worldwide. Its incidence is on the ascendancy in Africa including Ghana. In …

Prevalence of histological characteristics of breast cancer in Rwanda in relation to age and tumor stages

JP Uyisenga, Y Butera, A Debit, C Josse… - Hormones and …, 2020 - Springer
Breast cancer is a complex disease, and it is the most common cause of morbidity and
mortality among women worldwide. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the clinical characteristics and …

Breast cancer among Yemeni women using the national oncology centre registry 2004–2010

S El-Zaemey, N Nagi, L Fritschi, J Heyworth - Cancer epidemiology, 2012 - Elsevier
Background: In developing countries including Arab countries breast cancer is one of the
most common cancers found in women. Even though breast cancer incidence is lower in …

[HTML][HTML] Prognostic value of proliferation markers: immunohistochemical ki-67 expression and cytometric s-phase fraction of women with breast cancer in Libya

E Ermiah, A Buhmeida, F Abdalla, BR Khaled… - Journal of …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: We evaluated the association of the immunohistochemical Ki-67 expression,
and S-phase fraction with clinicopathological variables and patient outcome. Patients and …

Survival outcomes of breast cancer in sudanese women: a hospital-based study

HF Muddather, MMA Elhassan, A Faggad - JCO Global Oncology, 2021 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Breast cancer (BC) is the leading malignancy among Sudanese women. Yet,
data on survival are limited. This study aimed to determine 5-year overall survival (OS) of BC …

[HTML][HTML] Pattern of survival of breast cancer patients in a tertiary hospital in South West Nigeria

M Ali-Gombe, MI Mustapha, A Folasire… - …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Results A total of 378 patients were analysed. Age ranged between 22.0 and 87.0 years with
mean of 47.6 (standard deviation (SD)= 11.2) years. Almost all patients were females …