A state of panic in women''s circles after the increase in the prevalence of breast cancer in Saudi women, which prompted the question: Why did this disease prey girls before the women? ”Dr. Hasna Al-Ghamdi, Head of the Oncology Center at King Abdulaziz Hospital in Jeddah says:
The real and direct causes of cancer are not clearly known, and it is one of the diseases that are inherited from multiple causes. Women do not get breast cancer unless they have a genetic predisposition that makes them susceptible to infection, and other environmental factors are still under study by medical scientists, but there are factors. It helps in the occurrence of breast cancer, which is the age where the probability of infection increases as the age of the breast increases, and the family history, where the possibility of breast cancer increases if one of the relatives of a woman had it, especially before menopause, and the possibility of infection increases in a woman who has never been pregnant, as well as other factors Such as obesity, meaning if the weight of the woman increased 40% of the ideal weight.
And Dr. Al-Ghamdi indicated that breast tumors are ranked first among other types of cancers that afflict Saudi women with an estimated rate of 19%, and Al-Sharqiyah occupies first place according to the National Registry of Cancerous Tumors, by 22%, then Riyadh, 17.5%, then Makkah, Tabuk and Qassim.
And reveal d. Al-Ghamdi said that breast tumors are divided into two categories: benign, representing 80% of cases, malignant, and 20%. The risk of infection increases with advancing age and the average age of contracting the disease among Saudi women aged 48 years.
As for Dr. Umm Al-Khair Abdullah Abu Al-Khair, a consultant and head of the adult oncology department in the King Abdulaziz Medical City at the National Guard, she confirms that the prevalence of breast cancer is on the rise among women, and indicated that the annual total cost of a single cancer patient reaches nearly half a million riyals due to the high cost of treatment and the continuation of Its period is that these diseases require continuous treatment interventions for long periods.
And she stressed the importance of early detection by mammogram, with the need not to take birth control pills or hormone replacement except with medical supervision.
