TY - BOOK AU - Reem Soudy Elewa Mohammed AU - Amr Amin , AU - Medhet Elsebaie , AU - Mohammed Mahmoud Mousa , TI - Identification of age as a risk factor in breast cancer / PY - 2017/// CY - Cairo : PB - Reem Soudy Elewa Mohammed , KW - Age KW - Breast cancer KW - Risk factor N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Oncolog-Clinical; Issued also as CD N2 - 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 ER -