Abstract

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy type diagnosed in women in developed countries and the second most common type diagnosed in developing countries. The aim of this study is to determine the pattern of breast cancer, to correlate the age distribution with the histological subtypes, and to compare our study with other geographic regions. It is a retrospective study, the data were collected from the records of the cancer Registration Center including 489 breast cancer patients during 10 years from(2002-2011). The most common subtype of breast cancer was invasive ductal carcinoma (88.1%), followed by invasive lobular carcinoma (7.0%). The mean age of the patients with breast cancer was 49.5 ± 10.7, the common age group was (63.0%) between 30-50. Invasive ductal carcinoma is the commonest histological subtype affecting young to middle age group, while invasive lobular carcinoma is the commonest histological subtype affecting older age group.