Breast Cancer Related Anaemias

Abstract

Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed and the leading cause of cancer death in women globally. Over the past few decades its incidence has increased but a fall in mortality has been observed due to improvement in survival which is associated with earlier disease detection. This is a prospective cross-sectional descriptive study based on laboratory data of (136) patients with breast cancer carried out from (2012-2017) in Nuclear Medicine and Cancer Research centre - Shendi University and Nuclear Medicine and Cancer Research Centre - Aljazeera University. The investigations were performed on venous blood sample drawn in EDTA container for complete blood count by using auto haematology analyzer (Mindray BC-3000 plus). Regarding anemia among breast cancer, 61/136 (44.9 %) were anemic, while 75/136 (55.1 %) were non anemic. There is high frequency of cancer related anaemia in breast cancer (44.9 %).