Profiling Breast Diseases Attended in Breast Clinic of A Tertiary Care Hospital

Abstract

Background: Due to global rise of awareness and bonafide role of multi sector media towards breast diseases, women are becoming concern of any health issues of breast and many of them are attending breast clinics. Besides breast cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths in the world. We confidently rely on the triple assessment protocol comprising clinical, radiological and pathological examination to escort the management schedule in any breast disease. However, benign breast lumps are most commonly found, but association with morbidity has to be checked and evaluated accordingly. This study was aimed to profiling the breast diseases attended in breast clinic of a tertiary care hospital. To evaluate and categorized the patients with breast diseases which are referred to Breast and Endocrine Clinic (BEC) of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital.

Materials and methods: This is a cross sectional done in Breast and Endocrine Clinic (BEC) of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital from January 2019 to January 2021.376 patients with breast symptom included in this study.Demographic data, painful breast, nipple discharge, nipple retraction and breast lump were analyzed.

Results: During the study period 376 female patients of different age groups underwent in this study who visited the BEC with a breast symptom detected incidentally by themselves or by other physician, lump in 102 individuals. Demographic pictures were framed in the mean age group of patient was 35.1±9.2 where 30% subjects were postmenopausal and the mean BMI picture revealed stat of 22.5±2.1. Among the afore mentioned objects 154 patients complained of painful breast symptoms of which 64 found with bilateral breast pain, 05 with discharge from nipple and 18 with retracted nipple, 3 with symptoms associating axilla.Breast lump were seen in 61 cases out of which 06 malignant cases were sorted whereas 55 patient came up with benign pathologies.

Conclusion: History quest, proper methods of clinical examination of breast is and histopathology are the most predominating screening procedure to recognize pathologies in breast.

JCMCTA 2021 ; 32 (1) : 9-13