Significance of Breast Cancer to Family Structure, Community, Society, and Future Generations

Significance of Breast Cancer to Family Structure, Community, Society, and Future Generations

Breast cancer is a public health problem and is the leading cause of cancer incidence and mortality in adult women worldwide. Humanity is facing a major problem, little recognized in developing countries, whose impact goes beyond women's health in the individual; thus affecting the couple, the family, society, health system, and the future generations (Hunt & University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center 2008).

As other malignant tumours, Breast cancer is the result of alterations in the structure and ...