The Prevalence of Breast Cancer among Selected Group of Sudanese Women with Infertility Disorders
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2018
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جامعة الشيخ عبدالله البدري
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Abstract- Background: Breast cancer is the one of the most common oncological problems affecting
many Sudanese women and some therapeutic methods of that type of cancer may lead to temporary or
permanent infertility.
Justification: There is no published data about the prevalence of breast cancer among infertile
Sudanese women.
Objectives: To know the prevalence of breast cancer among selected group of infertile Sudanese women
attended to Banoon IVF center, Khartoum, Sudan, 2016.
Method: Descriptive, cross sectional study, 100 infertile Sudanese women were involved in the study, from
January to December 2016.
Result: The prevalence of breast cancer among the study group was: 6%.
Discussion: Some treatments for breast cancer can cause temporary infertility and other treatments cause
permanent and irreversible menopause, which means you are permanently infertile.