Chromosomal Abnormalities In Breast Carcinoma: (A Cytogenetic Study)

Breast carcinoma is the most common malignant tumor in women, contributing 30% of all female cancers. It affects 1 in 14 women during their life time. Breast cancer is second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer death in females, almost one of every three affected women will die of the disease. More than 1,000,000 cases occuring world wide annually Clonal chromosomal abnormalities are found in the malignant cells of most patients with solid tumors, With the improvement in cytogenetic culturing techniques and processing methods it has been clear that virtually all solid tumors have an abnormal karyotype and that some of these abnormalities are limited to a given tumor type.