Epidemiological, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Aspects of Breast Cancer in the Gynecology and Obstetrics Department of the CHU Gabriel Touré from 2020 to 2022

In Mali, breast cancer remains a real health problem in the absence of an adequate and adapted health policy for their early diagnosis and their often late or even non-existent treatment. Objectives: This study aimed to study the epidemiological, diagnostic, and therapeutic aspects of breast cancer to write the clinical aspects of breast cancer in the gynecology-obstetrics department of the CHU Gabriel Touré from 2020 to 2022. Methodology: This was a retrospective and descriptive study of 219 cases of breast cancer that were diagnosed in the gynecology and obstetrics department of the CHU Gabriel Touré in Bamako, from 2020 to 2022. Results: The annual frequency was 77.2 cases per year, the average age 45.55 years with extremes of 16 to 85 years; housewives represented 92.7%; multiparas were reported at 57%. Considering the history, the personal history of benign breast pathology was 55.6%. Regarding the localization, the left breast was the most affected with 53.9%, and the tumor was found in the supero-external quadrant in 53.9%. The cancer was metastatic in 81.28%. The diagnosis biopsy + histology contributed to 98.6%. The histological type was invasive carcinoma of non-specific type in 95%. As for the histoprognostic grade of SBR studied, grade II was predominant at 46%, grade III at 34.95%. The therapeutic strategy was chemotherapy in 83.1%. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by surgery in 10%, primary surgery in 6.4%, radiotherapy in 0.5%. Conclusion: The major challenges in the fight against breast cancer in Mali remain a better organization of the system for early diagnosis, the establishment of a screening program, early diagnosis in women from the age