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ea0037ep1110 | Endocrine tumours | ECE2015

Breast cancer and gonadal axis in postmenopausal and premenopausal women: impact of obesity

Mehaoudi Rym-Ikram , Assas Karima , Lazdam Nawel , Adane Saida , Soltani Yacine

Introduction: Breast cancer is one of the diseases causing the most deaths in women worldwide. Obesity, especially in postmenopausal women is a definite risk factor due to hormonal imbalance mainly to the levels of circulating oestrogen. The aim was to record levels for some gonadal axis hormones in breast cancer treated obese women.Patients and methods: 81 women aged between 21 and 80 years 54 are diagnosed with breast cancer (BC) during postmenopausal ...