Forms of Breast Disorders within Females Visiting Breast Disease Clinic

Abstract

1.1. Background: Breast disorders, either benign or malignant in nature, are clinically common. The forms of breast disorders vary within different nations. 1.2. Objectives: The goal of the current research study is to explore and observe the forms of breast disease and their correlation with various obtained variables of interest in females visiting the breast disease clinic. 1.3. Methodology: A cross-sectional research study performed at El Sahel Teaching Hospital from 1st of May 2017 till 1st of February 2017. A randomly selected cohort of 500 research subjects of all age categories have been enrolled in the research study. The cases have been cat- egorized according to their clinical diagnosis into 3 classes of breast conditions: normal, benign and malignant. The statistical significance was <0.05. 1.4. Results: breast disorders of benign nature diagnosed among (63%) of cases while breast dis- eases of malignant nature composed of (13.2%). The commonest clinical presentation have been mastalgia and breast mass (39.2%), mastalgia (37.6%), and breast mass only (23.2%). Fibro- adenoma (26.2%) has been the most common benign clinical disease with greatest incidence (76.9%) in the age research group below 20 years. Malignant breast diseases have been more frequent with increasing age. Benign breast clinical disorders and pathological lesions were correlated more with nulliparous females (p<0.001). Breast cancer observed (p <0.001) more frequent in a statistically significant fashion with in lactating females recruited in the research cohort. 1.5. Conclusion: Benign diseases and various disorder of the breast is a popular clinical di- agnosis mostly presented in younger females. Breast malignant disease despite the fact that is clinically diagnosed in lower frequency and mainly presented in older age groups, yet its sig- nificance oblige a meticulous evaluation of females of various clinical presentations particularly that of breast mass only or associated with mastalgia.