Breast Cancer Risk Factors among Women Getting Mammogram Screening at Azadi Hospital and Private Mammographic Clinics in Kirkuk City

Section: Original Articles
Published
Jul 22, 2021
Pages
199-206

Abstract

Background: Breast lesions form a heterogeneous group of illnesses that affect epithelial and stromal tissues of breast. There are many factors such as demographic, social and biomedical hazard act as breast lesion development; generally, these factors can be grouped into hazard factors that can be altered (modifiable) and hazard factors that cannot be altered (non-modifiable). Objectives: To identify breast cancer risk factors of breast among women attending to mammographic clinics in Kirkuk City. Methods: A descriptive study design carried out in Kirkuk City among (100) women getting mammogram screening, selected by purposive (non-probability) sample. The study initiated from (September 26 th , 2020 June 27th , 2021). Results: Fifty-one percent of women who visited the mammogram clinics were belong 40-49 years old with average age 449 years. Only 9% of women were smoking. While 21% of them were reporting that they were ex-smokers and 55% of them were some one smoked around. Only 6% of women were playing sport as running (3%) and daily walk (3%) that showed significant difference at p-value= 0.041.And the findings showed that 38% of them were eating a lot of sweet, but that was statistically insignificant. Most of women were eating a lot of fat and carbohydrate (84%) that showed significant difference at p-value = 0.029. Meanwhile only 34% of women were eating red meat, 56%, eating white meat, and 71% eating fresh fruit and vegetable but all that were statistically insignificant appeared. Conclusion: Age and unhealthy physical and dietary behaviour may associate with breast health problems. Key words: Risk Factors, Breast Lesions, Women.

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  1. Alaa Hassan Mirza Hussain
  2. Assistant. Prof. Dr, University of Baghdad, Collage of Nursing, Department of Basic Science, Baghdad City, Iraq.
  3. Email: [emailprotected]
  4. Breast Cancer Risk Factors among Women Getting Mammogram Screening at Azadi Hospital and Private Mammographic Clinics in Kirkuk City
  5. Safiya Ibrahim Mohammed
  6. M.Sc. Student, University of Baghdad, Collage of Nursing, Maternal & Neonate Nursing and clinical nurse specialist in Ministry of Health. Email: [emailprotected]

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