Evaluation of Some Diagnostic Indicators of Breast Cancer Patients in Baqubah City

Abstract

To this day, breast cancer still causes a health concern for women globally, so we investigated some of the diagnostic variables and inflammatory cytokines in adult females with breast cancer. The study was conducted on 100 adult participants; they were divided into two groups. The first included 60 breast cancer patients and the second 40 healthy women as control, they were attending the designated cancer center at Baquba governmental hospital and Al Shafaa private hospital, Iraq. Blood was collected from both groups, and the following diagnostic parameters were measured CRP, ferritin, IL-6, and TNF-α for the purpose of diagnosis or confirmation of breast cancer. The concluding results demonstrated a remarkable increase in the levels of those diagnostic variables in the serum of cancer patients versus controls individuals at the level of probability P ≤ 0.05. Thus, we can conclude that these serum parameters may be important indicators of this type of cancer.