Published on August 2020 | Biostatistics, Survival Analysis

EVALUATION OF SOME FACTORS INFLUENCING BREAST CANCER IN ILORIN METROPOLIS, NIGERIA

This study examined the trends in the prevalence of breast cancer in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. Breast cancer is an uncontrolled growth of breast cells. Cancer occurs as a result of mutations, or abnormal changes, in the genes responsible for regulating the growth of cells and keeping them healthy. The focus of this research work was to evaluate the factors affect analyze some factors responsible for the survival of Breast cancer patient in Nigeria. Furthermore, this study used a total number of two hund red and six (206) dataset collected from the records of women between the ages of ≤15 and >45 years in the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Kwara State. The methodology employed are non-parametric Kaplan-Meier method as well as Log-Rank statistic and the semi-parametric such as Cox proportional hazards regression model to analyze the data in order to determine the hazard ratios of the various covariates. The result obtained by the PHreg procedure indicated that stages of breast cancer, year of admission, and age of patients as factors influencing the outcome of breast cancer patient in Nigeria.