647 cases of breast malignancy of Breast Institute of Ubá

Abstract

Objective: To verify the presentation profile and the surgical treatment in hospital in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Methods: Descriptive, prospective study of a series of cases which was performed based on cases treated by the same team in the Mastology outpatient in Instituto de Mama de Ubá, in the period of March 2001 and December 2014, filing pre-defined information and with analysis of the data of the programme R and SPSS PC. Results: A total of 647 cases, with a mean age of 57±14.2 years old (the ages varied from 24 to 92), underwent surgery. The patients came from 37 different cities, mostly from Ubá (MG) (34%). The infiltrating ductal carcinoma was the main histological type (64%). The initial stages prevailed, with 34% of the patients on the clinical stage I and 31% on stage II a. The surgical approach was breast-conserving therapy in 67% of the cases. The sentinel node biopsy was performed in 160 cases. Operations including oncoplastic technique were performed in 143 patients. There were 17% of death in the post-treatment follow-up. Conclusion: It was noted that there was a prevalence of patients with early stages tumor, this enabled high rates of treatment with breast preservation and with prospect of reducing the disease mortality rate in the future.