title: Profile of black woman in Senegal with breast cancer.
abstract: To describe the profile of Senegalese black women with breast cancer. This is a retrospective and prospective study of patients receiving care for breast cancer in the breast diseases department of the Aristide Le Dantec Teaching Hospital in Dakar from 2010 through June 2014. 188 women patients met the inclusion criteria. Their mean age at diagnosis was 43.3 years. The age of onset of the first menses was early (<12 years) in 7 patients (4.9%). More than two thirds of the women (71.6%) were premenopausal at diagnosis. At least one pregnancy was reported by 161 women (86.1%) and 96.3 had given birth. Mean age at first pregnancy was 19.47 years, and 85.9% had had their first pregnancy before the age of 30. Similarly, 133 (87.3%) had breastfed, for a mean duration of 18.36 months. In our country, breast cancer occurs in young women, who had their first menses after 12 years, are premenopausal, had their first pregnancy before the age of 30, and breastfed for several months. These data suggest that further study of this profile is needed but that the testing policy must change drastically, to start much earlier than 50 years.
authors.affiliation: Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, clinique gynécologique et obstétricale, Établissement public de santé Aristide-Le Dantec, avenue Pasteur, 3001 Dakar, Sénégal.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gueye
authors.affiliation: Unité de sénologie, université Cheikh-Anta-Diop de Dakar, clinique gynécologique et obstétricale, Établissement public de santé Aristide-Le Dantec, avenue Pasteur, 3001 Dakar, Sénégal.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Kane Gueye
authors.affiliation: Unité de sénologie, université Cheikh-Anta-Diop de Dakar, clinique gynécologique et obstétricale, Établissement public de santé Aristide-Le Dantec, avenue Pasteur, 3001 Dakar, Sénégal.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Ndiaye Gueye
authors.affiliation: Unité de sénologie, université Cheikh-Anta-Diop de Dakar, clinique gynécologique et obstétricale, Établissement public de santé Aristide-Le Dantec, avenue Pasteur, 3001 Dakar, Sénégal.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gueye
authors.affiliation: Unité de sénologie, université Cheikh-Anta-Diop de Dakar, clinique gynécologique et obstétricale, Établissement public de santé Aristide-Le Dantec, avenue Pasteur, 3001 Dakar, Sénégal.
authors.forename: J-C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Moreau
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D044383:Black People; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012675:Senegal / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Senegal; black women; breast cancer; risk factors