Reem Soudy Elewa Mohammed

Identification of age as a risk factor in breast cancer / تحديد السن كعامل خطر للاصابة بمرض سرطان الثدى Reem Soudy Elewa Mohammed ; Supervised Mohammed Mahmoud Mousa , Medhet Elsebaie , Amr Amin - Cairo : Reem Soudy Elewa Mohammed , 2017 - 79 P. : charts ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Oncolog-Clinical

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among Egyptian women. Young age is considered by some authors as an independent poor prognostic factor, it is usually associated with other adverse factors. In this study we compared disease characteristics between women under the age of 40 years and these over forty years old. They were found to have similar disease characteristics as pathological type but young patients tend to have more negative hormonal receptors



Age Breast cancer Risk factor