title: Clinical and mammographic profile of patients with breast cancer surgically treated.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to analyze the epidemiological, clinical and mammographic profile of women with breast cancer who were treated at the mastology clinic of the University Hospital of Santa Maria and who underwent breast surgery between January 2007 and December 2012.
  
  
  METHODS
  this was a cross-sectional study, approved by the Ethics in Research Committee. A review of the patients' medical records was performed. The data were then exported to a software program for statistical analysis, namely Minitab 14.1.
  
  
  RESULTS
  the patients' profile indicated that they were mostly born and raised in Santa Maria (respectively 11.1%, n=16, and 26.3%, n=68). They were about 55.6 years old (SD ± 12.3), white (90.2%, n=213), had already given birth and breastfed their children, were nonsmokers, but also overweight (average BMI of 27 kg/m2). On physical examination of the first medical consultation, these patients, as described in the records: had a palpable mass (81.1%, n=184) measuring over three centimeters, located in the left breast, precisely in the upper outer quadrant (41.4%, n=81). Mammography (39%, n=109) showed that this lump was classified as BIRADS ® 5 (40%, n=81). On histopathological examination, the lump was diagnosed as an invasive ductal cancer (71.1%, n=191). Surgery was generally a radical mastectomy (84.7%, n=236) with axillary dissection (92.5%, n=222).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  some of the epidemiological, clinical and mammographic features mentioned above resembled those found in the literature reviewed. However, these patients had advanced disease and underwent non conservative surgical procedures.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Raquel Rodrigues
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Muradas
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria Teresa Aquino de Campos
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Velho
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, UFSM, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Itamar dos Santos
authors.initials: Idos S
authors.lastname: Riesgo
authors.affiliation: Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Alexandre Duarte
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Brum
authors.affiliation: UFSM, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Raquel Montagner
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Rossi
authors.affiliation: UFSM, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Julia Mottecy
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Piovezan
authors.affiliation: UFSM, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Melania
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lacerda
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001938:Brazil; D001942:Breast Feeding; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000601:surgery; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography; D008408:Mastectomy; D008875:Middle Aged; D010173:Palpation; D010298:Parity; D065840:Protective Factors; D055815:Young Adult