Association of Breast Cancer with Hormonal Contraceptive Use Among Women Between the Ages of 15 To 65 Years Abia State, Nigeria
Abstract:
Breast cancers are two of the leading causes of cancer deaths in women, accounting for more than 40% of all women's cancer and about two-thirds of cancer. deaths. The risk of breast cancer appears to increase with duration of use of hormonal contraceptives, however, after stopping taking it, the risk of invasive cancer declines, returning to the same as women who have never taken the pill 10 or more years after stopping.
Objectives: Aimed to determine the prevalence of breast cancer with hormonal contraceptives use on women between 15-65years.
Method: The researchers adopted descriptive study, 740 participated in the research study and sampling technique was applied to make sure the target population had opportunity of participation. A well-structured questionnaire and preformed as tool for data collection.
Result: A total of 608(109.3) participants used contraceptives and between 10years 181 participants used the commodity. On breast examination, 83.4% heard normal breast in a visual inspection. 87.27% of participants heard a normal breast color. 77.03 heard no abnormal breast discharge while 22.97% said they were experiencing breast discharge.78.32% are not breast feeding while 21% were breast feeding mothers and are eligible for the screening. Kruskal Wallis H test as well as Mann-Whitney U test was employed. With a p-value of 0.038, there is enough evidence to infer that when one began to use hormonal contraceptives influences incidence of breast cancer.
Conclusion: Breast cancer has killed too many women either as a result of hormonal contraceptives or other causes
