Clinical and Histological Evaluation of Patients With Breast Diseases

Abstract

BACKGROUND Breast pathologies being benign and malignant with varying treatment options remain a challenge for the surgeons. Also, the prognosis of the breast disease varies from one condition to the other. With this varying treatment options and prognosis, breast diseases especially breast carcinomas add burden not only to the health care sector but also to the patient in economic terms also. Hence, this study was planned to know the clinical profile of breast diseases among females more than 15 years of age. MATERIALS AND METHODSData was a descriptive study collected from hundred female patients above 15 yrs. of age who presented with breast lump, pain in the breast and nipple discharge and willing to undergo histopathology examination/ FNAC and treatment for their breast disease in outpatient and inpatient surgery department in