Breast Cancer: Role of Hormones Receptors and Tumor Markers: Breast cancer

Abdulghani  Alsamarai; Sheylan Salah  Abdulla; Suzan Khaled  Mohamed Saraj

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Abdulghani Alsamarai Tikrit University College of Medicine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7872-6691
Sheylan Salah Abdulla Erbil Polytechnic University, Health Technical College, Medical Laboratory Technique, Erbil, Iraq https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8584-1391
Suzan Khaled Mohamed Saraj Kirkuk Health Authority, Kirkuk, Iraq https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5512-716X

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Breast cancer, Hormones, Tumor markers, Hormones receptors, Estrogen receptor (ER), Progesterone Receptor (PR), Carcinoma antigen 15.3 (CA15.3), Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), CA27.29, TPA, HER-2, P53 protein

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Breast cancer is the common malignant disease in Iraqi community and for the first rank for the new cases incidence, death rate and five years prevalence for the year 2020. In Iraq, new cases of breast cancer for 2020 are 22.2%, while it is 20.9% for Syria, 20.8% for Jordan, 20.6% for Kuwait, 16.4% for Egypt, 14.2% for Saudi Arabia, 12.9% for Iran, and 10.3% for Turkey. The breast cancer etiology still unclear, however, recent studies implicated many risk factors, such as viral infections and hormones. Unfortunately, recent studies indicated a shift toward younger age group in breast cancer development.

Breast Cancer: Role of Hormones Receptors and Tumor Markers

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