Breast Cancer in Tanzania, East -Africa

Gender health . she has breast cancer, how do we help her to help herself
      Did you know .....? Breast cancer cancer is the major global problem ?
keneth hilary Bpharm, CEO vacfoundation                                                


Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer death among women worldwide, representing 25-35% of all female cancer cases. While breast cancer inci­dence rates are higher in high-income countries than in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), case-fatal­ity rates are disproportionately higher in LMICs, due to limited capacity to implement prevention, early detection and treatment programs.
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 In Tanzania, breast cancer represents 14.4% of new cancers among women. The age-standardized breast cancer incidence in Tanzania is 19.4/100,000 women and the age-standardized breast cancer mortality rate is 9.7/100,000. This translates to a mortality-to-incidence ratio (MIR) of 0.5, indicating that half of all women diagnosed with breast cancer in Tan­zania will die of the disease. The numbers of new breast cancers are projected to increase from 2,732 in 2012, to 4,961 cases in 2030, an increase of 82%. Projections for breast cancer deaths follow the same pattern, with an increase of 80% in breast cancer deaths by 2030.

Currently, approximately 80% of women diagnosed with breast cancer are diagnosed at advanced stages of dis­ease and have limited access to early detection, diag­nosis and treatment services. Consensus findings from a variety of retrospective studies point to late stage at diagnosis, with the majority of patients presenting with stage III or IV disease. A recent prospective study based at Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH) and Tumaini Hospi­tal collected data on tumor stage, type and nodal status from 348 women, aged 28 to 79 years old with stage I-III breast cancer undergoing modified radical mastectomy. Patients with stage IV were excluded. The majority of patients (83.7%) presented with stage III disease and 16.3% with stage II.

Reference ; Tanzania Breast Health Care Assesment 2017
 https://www.fredhutch.org/en/labs/phs/projects/breast-cancer-initiative_2-5/assessment-tools/tanzania-breast-health-care-assessment-2017.html

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