%0 Journal Article %T Breast Cancer Survival in Mongolian Women %A D. Angarmurun %A B. Batzorig %A L. Undram %A D. Gantuya %A O. Chimedsuren %A D. Avirmed %J Open Access Library Journal %V 1 %N 5 %P 1-5 %@ 2333-9721 %D 2014 %I Open Access Library %R 10.4236/oalib.1100396 %X
Cancer is becoming an important cause of
mortality in developing country year by year. During last 10 years 5% of all
cancer cases in Mongolian women were accounted for breast cancer. The aim of
our study was to determine survival in women with breast cancer in Mongolia.
The data of morbidity and mortality on breast cancer were collected
retrospectively and were used to analyze stages of the cancer and survival from
the time of diagnosis to death depending on stages. During 2003-2012 years
totally 1008 cases with breast cancer were registered in National Cancer
Centre. The breast cancers had been coded and classified according to
International Classification of dis-eases, 10th Revision (ICD 10). The
frequency distribution of cancer patients was evaluated by age, place of
residence and stage of diagnosis. In Mongolia in 2003-2012, there were 1008
cases of breast cancer diagnosed and 41 (4.1%), 212 (21%), 553 (54.9%) and 200
(19.8%) of them were diagnosed in Stage I, II, II and IV of the disease
respectively. Among patients who died from the cancer there were 4 (2.9%), 17
(12.3%), 71 (51.4%) and 46 (33.3%) who died in Stage I, II, III and IV of the
cancer respectively. Among all participants of the study some 3% of women with
the breast cancer died within the first year of detection of the cancer and the
rest 97% of them survived the first year. In the second year after detection of
the cancer 34% of women died and 96% survived. But all women with breast cancer
had died by the ninth year after detection of the cancer. In Mongolia only one
quarter of breast cancer are diagnosed in the earlier stages (25.1%) of the
disease. Therefore, there is a need for improving services for detection of
breast cancer in earlier stages.