WOMEN’S HEALTH SITUATION WITH BREAST CANCER: A CASE-CONTROL STUDY

Cristina Camargo Pereira, Maria das Graças Freitas de Carvalho, Karine Anusca Martins, Jordana Carolina Marques Godinho Mota, Larissa Vaz Gonçalves, Polianna Ribeiro dos Santos, Jordana Barbosa da Rocha, Ruffo Freitas-Junior

Institution: UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE GOIÁS – FANUT

“Objective: To compare women’s health situation with and without breast cancer in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil. Methods: it was used a Case-control study with 90 women newly diagnosed with breast cancer treated at Mastology program of a federal public hospital and 166 women without the disease. The bank and data analysis were performed using the Epi-Info software, version 7.1.5, by calculating absolute and relative frequencies, and means and standard deviations. For association analysis was performed using the chi-square test of Pearson (categorical variables) and T student test (continuous variables). Results: The average age of patients was 52.58 ± 11.08 and 52.76 ± 11.15 years controls. In health status characteristics were no statistically significant associations for family history of breast cancer (p=0,005) with reporting 18.89% in cases and 7.27% in controls, the use of hormone replacement therapy (p=0,0001) with average use of 1.10 ± 0.3 years for cases and 1.32 ± 0.47 years for controls, smoking (p=0,001) often of 46.66% in the case group and 28.91% in the control and alcohol drinking (p=0,008) in which 22.22% cases and 39.40% controls had the habit. Analyses of age of menopause (p=0,75), breastfeeding (p=0,76), pregnancy (p=0,60), number of children (p=0,29) and age of the first child (p=0,69) showed no statistically significant differences between cases and controls. Conclusion: goianas Women with breast cancer have a family history of breast cancer, make use of hormone replacement therapy, were smokers and reported less alcohol consumption when compared to women without the disease.

Keywords: Breast Neoplasms; Women’s Health; Risk Factors”

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