Study of epidemiology of Breast Cancer in Maragheh, Iran (2007-2012)

Background and Objectives :Breast cancer is one of the most common and important diseases in womens. Considering the high prevalence and mortality of breast cancer at early age groups in Iran, it seems like necessary to conduct epidemiological studies. The present study was done in a 6 years period at Maragheh, Iran.Materials and methods: This study is was done based on information collected from Maragheh health center registration system on Breast cancer in a period of 6 years, from the January 2007 up to the December of 2013. All of the registered patients were included in the study. Results: During the 6 past years 17 patients were diagnosed suffering from Breast cancer, 14 cases (82%) by paraclinical and 3 cases (8%) by clinical criteria, All of the cases (17, 100%) were over 17 years old. Highest percentage of patients were belong to 2007 (5 cases 29/41%) and the lowest werefrom 2010 and 2013 (1 cases 5/88%). Conclusions: There is not a precise statistics on breast cancer prevalence in the country. And someexperts have been discussing cancer as a tsunami in future years. Annually increasing rate of cancer has needs an urgent public interference against cancer progression