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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Obstetrics and Gynecology International Volume 2011, Article ID 143506, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2011/143506 Clinical Study Breast Cancer Profile in a Group of Patients Followed up at the Radiation Therapy Unit of the Yaounde General Hospital, Cameroon J. D. Kemfang Ngowa,1 J. Yomi,2 J. M. Kasia,1 Y. Mawamba,1 A. C. Ekortarh,3 and G. Vlastos4 1 Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Yaounde General Hospital, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaounde I, 5408 Yaounde, Cameroon 2 Department of Radiation Therapy, Yaounde General Hospital, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaounde I, 1364 Yaounde, Cameroon 3 Oncology Division, Yaounde General Hospital, 5408 Yaounde, Cameroon 4 Breast Diseases Unit, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Geneva University Hospitals, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland Correspondence should be addressed to J. D. Kemfang Ngowa, jdkemfang@yahoo.fr Received 19 April 2011; Accepted 10 June 2011 Academic Editor: Peter E. Schwartz Copyright © 2011 J. D. Kemfang Ngowa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective. To describe the profile of breast cancer in the patients attending the radiation therapy unit of Yaounde General Hospital. Method. From 1989 to 2009, we conducted a descriptive retrospective study based on the register and medical records of patients. Results. During the study period, 531 breast cancer patients were recorded of which 0.75% were male. Age range was 18 to 82 years, with a mean of 45.17 years. Out of these, 66.1% were less than 50 years old and