Incidence of breast cancer in women in Guantánamo Province in the period 2015-2016

Introduction: breast cancer is the most frequent in women, it is assumed that 4% of women will suffer from this tumor before age 74 and 1.3% will die because of it. Objective: to characterize breast cancer in patients of Guantánamo province in the period 2015-2016. Method: a descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out. The universe of the research was formed by 1590 patients who had a diagnosis of breast cancer in the province of which a randomized random sample of 35 patients was selected in 2015 and 46 patients in 2016. Results: most of the authors agree that the age group most affected with this disease is the over 40 years old. Among the predominant risk factors in the genesis of breast cancer were, overweight or obesity and less than 4 months of breastfeeding or not offering it. Conclusions: the age that prevailed was the group between 55-59. The most important risk factors were obesity and sedentary lifestyle, with obese and overweight women predominating. It was shown that the largest percentage of women did not practice breast self-examination, so the knowledge of the female population about the importance of performing it is negligible.