Healthcare - Breast Cancer

RUNNING HEAD: HEALTHCARE 0
“BREAST CANCER”

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Background......................................................................................................................................2
Methods...........................................................................................................................................2
Results..............................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
In the report, the critical review of “Determinants of breast cancer in Saudi women from
Makkah region: a case-control study (breast cancer risk factors among Saudi women)” article is
done.
Background
The study describe that in Makkah there is diversity of the populations so it become
important to describe the appropriate factors of breast cancer among the diverse population.
However, researchers conducted the case-control study which includes various factors and
aspects such as socio-economic factors, histories of menstrual (Alsolami, et al., 2019). The
percentage of increase in breast cancer among population is raised among women; the earlier
researches revealed that breast cancer is increased due to number of factors which includes age,
lifestyles, family history and due to several other reasons (Alsolami, et al., 2019). The main aim
of the study is to understand the aspects and related factors for “postmenopausal women
diagnosed with breast cancer”.
Methods
The study was conducted between the years 2014 to 2016 at “King Abdullah Medical
City Hospital” which is in the Makkah region of Saudi Arabia. It is the only hospital which
offers treatments to the women who all diagnosed with the breast cancer (Alsolami, et al., 2019).
The study excluded the participants of other nationality and African- Asians ethnicity, the study
also does not include women who diagnosed with any other cancer. Therefore, the total number
of participates which involved in the study were 432 females in which “214 cases and 218
controls” were selected for the study. The groups were not comparable in the study because
participates who all selected were diagnosed by breast cancer.The study involve participates
which is > 45 years it is because the motive of the study is to include participates which were
newly diagnosed with the breast cancer. The exposure is measured in most adequate and reliable
manner by adopting same methods in both cases and control.