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Relationship between personal, social characteristics and life style with breast cancer.

Background and Aim : Breast cancer is the most common cancer that is influenced life of many women. Although the causes of breast cancer are unknown, identification of risk factors can be helped to find preventive strategies to reduce involvement of this disease. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between some of personal, social characteristics and life style with breast cancer. Materials and Methods : This case-control study was performed in center of radiation and chemotherapy of shahid Rajai of Babolsar. We did simple sampling to include 72 patients who involved breast cancer and 85 healthy women who were matched with case group regarding to age, and place of life. To analyze of data, x2 and T-test were applied. Results :Results of this relationship between breast cancer and some personal, social characteristics and lifeʹ style such as, socio economic level, age of menarch, familial history of breast or other cancers among first or second degree relatives, history of breast trauma, smoking cigarettes or passive smoking, choronic medical diseases, low exercise, stressful life and high body mass index (p<0/05). There were not significant relationship between breast cancer and these variables; parity, age of first pregnancy, number of abortion, nursing, consumption of oral contraceptive pills, history of benign breast diseases, biopsy of breast and age of menopause. Conclusion : This study support that familial history of breast cancer, stressful life, chronic medical diseases, obesity, low education of women and low socio-economic level are the main risk factors for breast cancer. Also, this project proposes that improvement of life style such as, giving up of smoking, regular exercise and doing screening tests to identify of cancer in early stages are main protective factors to prevent from breast cancer.