Clinical profile of breast cancer in Arab and Jewish women in the Jerusalem area

The clinical profile of breast cancer may vary among different ethnic groups living in the same country and therefore affect the yield of a breast cancer screening program. The present study attempts to better characterize the breast cancer clinical profile of Arab women compared with Jewish women i...

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Published in:The American journal of surgery 2004-07, Vol.188 (1), p.62-67
Main Authors: Nissan, Aviram, Spira, Ram M, Hamburger, Tamar, Badrriyah, Mahmud, Prus, Diana, Cohen, Tzeela, Hubert, Ayala, Freund, Herbert R, Peretz, Tamar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Analysis of Variance
Arab
Arab people
Arabs - statistics & numerical data
Ashkenazi
Biological and medical sciences
Biopsy
Breast cancer
Breast neoplasms
Breast Neoplasms - ethnology
Breast Neoplasms - mortality
Breast Neoplasms - pathology
Breast Neoplasms - prevention & control
Cancer screening
Disease-Free Survival
Ethnicity
Female
General aspects
Gynecology. Andrology. Obstetrics
Hospitals
Humans
Israel - epidemiology
Jewish people
Jews - statistics & numerical data
Lumpectomy
Lymphatic system
Mammary gland diseases
Mammography
Mass Screening
Mastectomy
Medical sciences
Metastasis
Middle Aged
Mortality
Population
Prognosis
Retrospective Studies
Sephardic
Survival
Survival Rate
Tumors
Womens health
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Summary:The clinical profile of breast cancer may vary among different ethnic groups living in the same country and therefore affect the yield of a breast cancer screening program. The present study attempts to better characterize the breast cancer clinical profile of Arab women compared with Jewish women in the greater Jerusalem area with a future aim of establishing a comprehensive and effective screening program for this population. Retrospective chart review was conducted and the following covariates were correlated with survival: ethnicity, age at diagnosis, and American Joint Committee on Cancer (TNM) stage at diagnosis. A total of 312 women were operated on for breast cancer between 1994 and 1999; 51% were Ashkenazi Jews (AJ), 26% were Sephardic Jews (SJ), 21% were Palestinian Arabs (PA), and 2% patients did not fit into those ethnic groups. The mean age at diagnosis was 51.5 years for the PA group, 53.4 ± 1.5 for the SJ group, and 55.9 years for the AJ group ( P
ISSN:0002-9610
1879-1883
DOI:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2003.11.039