Breast Cancer Risk Trends of Iraqi Women

Background: Breast cancer (BC) are one of the significant prevalence malignances among Iraqi women, which ranked as the number one cancer documented in all provinces. Although there is a rising incidence in the frequencies of BC, there were not enough studies conducted on the incidence’s frequencies over the Iraqi women in Thi-Qar provinces. It is well-known that incidence rates are informative. Analysis of tendencies would advantage in planning and organizing programs for control cancers incidence. Objective: The objective of the following study is to calculate the risk of BC using updated data from the cancer registries in the Iraqi health ministry and document its tendencies that released in different periods. Materials and Method: Data on incidence rates of BC were obtained from cancer registries of Iraq for the period between 2009 and 2015. Annual percent change in incidence and risk in terms of one in the number of women likely to develop cancer was estimated for both cancers’ types in five cities in Thi-Qar province. Results: The incidence of BC ages group (45-49), (50-54) and (60-64) were significantly increased, while the age group (15-19) were significantly decreased. On the other hand, the higher increase in the incidence of BC in 2015 was reported to be 84 and 29 cases in Al-Nassiriya and Al-Shatra cities, respectively. Conclusion: Al-Refaey region recorded a decline in the incidence of BC, which is contrary to the observation in other cities, which showed an increase in breast cancer. On the other hand, the north side of the city which known to be more contaminated with pollution has higher incidence rate.