1Hematology, Oncology Department, Al-Hussein Medical City, Karbala, Iraq
2Sulaymaniyah College of Medicine
3Gynecology and Obstetrics Teaching Hospital, Karbala, Iraq
Worldwide, breast cancer is the most frequent malignant tumor in women. Many factors are known to have important roles in this high incidence, AbO blood groups has emerged lately as another risk factor and its association with breast cancer has been validated. In this study we tried to find out if this relationship could be validated in cancer patients of the Sulaymaniyah province of Iraqi Kurdistan.
This study was conducted at the Hiwa hematology/oncology hospital in Sulaymaniyah province. blood groups of all breast cancer patients were retrospectively documented from the charts of all patients that had been registered with the hospital from the opening of the center at around mid 2007 until August 2015. As for the control AbO blood group status data was obtained from 500 age-matched females.
Data obtained were correlated and comparison was made between the 500 evaluable breast cancer patients and the 500 available control blood groups. Association between AbO blood groups & and breast cancer was found to be highly significant statistically (
We found that there is a statistical association between female breast cancer and AbO blood groups & Rh factor.
Breast cancer, ABO blood groups, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
