BODY MASS INDEX AND SURVIVAL RATE OF NONMETASTATIC BREAST CANCER WOMEN
Ahmed Ayesh Bawaneh M.D.*, Anees Izzo Halalmeh M.D., Muna Hamzeh Al-Khawaldeh M.D., Mohammad Saed Alkhader M.D., Mohammad Ali Zreiqat M.D. and Sinan Ahmad Badwan M.D.
ABSTRACT
Breast cancer is a global health problem and most common type of cancer among women that’s make up 25.1% of all new cancer diagnoses in women according to global cancer project.[1] In 2011, World Health Organization estimated around 508,000 death cases among women worldwide due to breast cancer.[2] Around 252,710 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 40,610 breast cancer deaths were expected to die in United State in 2017, with increased incidence rate ranged from. 3% to 1.7% according to ethnic groups.[3] In Jordan, breast cancer is considered to be among top five cancers: breast cancer 1008 (20.1%), followed by colorectal 567 (11.3%), lung 371(7.4%), lymphoma 327 (6.5%), and urinary bladder 246 (4.9%) according to Jordan Cancer Registry (2012).[4]
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