Abstract

The cancer treatment has been the most important and devastating problem of human civilization, creating a burgeoning interest and commitment of cancer research and therapy and to obtain a gratifying result in the improvements in the length of survival, quality of survival and in palliative care. Until the past decade, breast cancer was the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in women. In 1985 the lung surpassed, it as the leading site of cancer related mortality in women. Despite the steady increase in incidence, the overall breast cancer mortality has remained static. This relative decrease in mortality rate reflects the detection of an increasing percentage of early disease. Worldwide, breast carcinoma in an epidemiologic problem.