title: Breast cancer in Nigeria.
abstract: Breast cancer as seen in 116 Nigerian women over a 5-year period, 1974 to 1979, at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin, Nigeria, is presented. The disease occurs one decade earlier in Nigerians and is mainly a disease of premenopausal and perimenopausal women. Reflecting their relative youthfulness, more than 10% of them are pregnant or lactating on presentation. The most common histologic finding is anaplasia with very unfavorable histological grade. Breast cancer does not seem to have a different biologic behaviour in Nigerians, but it carries a truly bleak prognosis because many of the patients present with incurable disease that is close to its end stages.
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Chiedozi
mesh_terms: D002288:Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000453:epidemiology; D002293:Adenocarcinoma, Scirrhous / Q000453:epidemiology; D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D002285:Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating / Q000453:epidemiology; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007774:Lactation; D008408:Mastectomy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009549:Nigeria; D010144:Paget's Disease, Mammary / Q000453:epidemiology; D010298:Parity; D011247:Pregnancy; D011379:Prognosis