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Reliability of imaging as compared to histology in breast cancer valuation

Rozhan Omar

Background: Breast cancer affects one in every eight women in the Unites States and one in nineteen women locally. More than three quarters of patients are currently cured with modern therapy; this fact has been reproducible at our Hiwa Cancer Center, the only tertiary care oncology center in Sulaymaniyah, a city of two million population in Kurd- istan. Evaluation of patients properly is the cornerstone upon which the rest of the management paradigm is based. Discrepancy in clinical, imaging and histological outcome in many patients has led us to consider this comparative study between what we perceive clinically, find radiologically and deliver from the histopathology department as the final and ultimate outcome.