Epidemiological, clinical, pathological and immunohistochemical of patients with breast cancer in Cuiaba (MT), Brazil

Abstract

st Cancer (BC) is the most common malignancy in women, the first in incidence after skin cancer and a leading cause of female cancer death. Understand the epidemiological, clinical profile, ana- tomical pathology and immunohistochemical this disease contribute to the development of strategies for preven- tion and treatment. This study aims to describe the epidemiological, clinical profile, anatomical pathology and immunohistochemical of patients with BC, assisted in Cuiaba (MT), Brazil. Method: It is an observational study. Data were collected in a specific form, directly to the patient interviews and medical records in care institutions by the Unified Health System and private clinical care and health insurance between 2011 and 2013. Results: Patients with BC in Cuiabá present resemblance to the patients described in other Brazilian studies regarding age, marital status, ethnicity, education level, body mass index, how to perception and symptoms, as to the menarche, number of children, breastfeeding, contraceptive use hormonal, use of hormone replacement therapy, alcohol con- sumption, physical activity and emotional trauma. Conclusion: The patients studied with BC in Cuiaba present distribution similar to those described in other Brazilian publications. When compared by ethnicity and clinical, anatomical and pathological immunohistochemi- cal, there was no difference between groups. Also there was no difference comparing clinical stage with education level or with body weight. There was difference in the distribution of the disease and the clinical stage of patients assisted in the Unified Health System (SUS) compared to those receiving care at private practices and agreements, and the assisted private system and agreements with diagnosis in lower clinical stage, compared with assisted by SUS.