Breast cancer in young: Experience at a tertiary care centre in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh

A Retrospective Clinico-pathologic Analysis of 100 Breast Cancer Cases: Experience from a Tertiary Care Hospital of Coastal India

“…9-11 On histopathological examination, stage II followed by stage III were the commonest stages reported in the younger and elderly age groups as against stage I and IV based on their prevalence (p=0.006) in accordance with the findings of the study conducted by Zhang et al 14 which reported stage II to be the predominant stage in both the younger and elderly age groups. Similar studies conducted by Manilal et al 6 Sidoni et al 11 Thapa et al 16 and Thangjam et al 18 , though, found stage III to be the predominant stage reported in the younger women (<40 years) as against stage II which was the most common stage reported in the elderly age groups (> 40 years).…”

“…[2][3][4][5] Recently, a phenomenal change has been noticed in the behavior of breast carcinoma cases wherein more of the young women have been found to be more commonly getting afflicted and being diagnosed with breast carcinomas. [6][7][8] The aim of the present study was to evaluate the histo-pathological characteristics of breast carcinomas reported in patients lesser than 40 years of age and compare them with those reported in the elderly age groups.…”