Breast Symptoms Among Women Attendant’s to Early Detection Breast Clinic
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37506/ijphrd.v13i3.18191Keywords:
Breast cancer, breast symptom, early detection, screening, BI-RADS.Abstract
Background: Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women. Breast cancer early detection is a program
that combines early diagnosis for symptomatic patients with opportunistic breast clinical examination screening. This
study was conducted to demonstrate the drawback of opportunistic screening.
Methodology: A group of 200 symptomatic patients were consulted at the women’s health center at AL-Elweiya maternity
teaching hospital in Baghdad between January 2021 and June 2021.Breast physical exam, imaging tests (ultrasound and
mammographic examination), and fine-needle aspiration cytology analysis (FNAC) were done. All cases are categorized
according to ACR/BI-RADS atlas lexicon.
Results:Only 18 percent of those who went to the breast clinics with the purpose of getting screened showed up. Of those
who had clinical breast examinations, 94(35.7%) and 169(64.3%) were subjected either to mammograms, ultrasound, or
mammograms.Thirty-five (94.8%) patients were under BI-RADS 1 and 2 (no malignant), while BI-RADS 4 (suspicious of
malignancy) was noticed in 21 (18.7%) patients using mammograms and 91 (81.3%) using U/S. BI-RADS 5 was noticed
in 1 (100%) using a mammogram.
Conclusion: This study showed that opportunistic screening is essential in breast cancer screening.
