title: Breast cancer in West Indian women in Trinidad.
abstract: A retrospective review of breast cancer in West Indian women in Trinidad is presented. Breast cancer constituted 17% of all cancers diagnosed and represented 26% of all cancers in females. The usual presenting symptom was a painless lump. The right breast and the upper outer quadrant were the common site of cancer. 85% of the patients were multiparous with an average of 4 children and 92% of them breast fed. Most patients presented in stage I disease, but a significant number of cases were in an advanced stage of the disease. Infiltrating duct carcinoma was the most frequent histological diagnosis and lobular carcinoma was seen in 1% of the cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Port of Spain General Hospital, Trinidad, West Indies.
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Raju
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Naraynsingh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D044383:Black People; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002285:Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007197:Indians, Central American; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014300:Trinidad and Tobago / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology