Assessment of the risk status of breast cancer and life style behavior of women Attending general Opd in selected Hospital of Kolkata, West Bengal

Introduction: A Case control study was conducted to assess the risk status of breast cancer and lifestyle behavior of women in R. G Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata. The objectives of the study were to assess the risk status of breast cancer and life style behaviours and determine the relationship between risk status of breast cancer and life style behaviours. Methodology:A case control study design was adopted for this women attending general OPD and Oncology OPD in R.G Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, and to determine the relationship between lifestyle behavior and risk status of breast cancer and to find out the association between lifestyle behavior of women and selected demographic variables. The conceptual framework was based on Baron and Kenny’s moderator-mediator variables. Random sampling technique was adopted to select 100 participants for both study and control group among women attending general OPD and Oncology OPD of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata. Avalid and reliable interview schedule was administered to assess the life style behavior of women to establish the risk status of breast cancer. Logistic regression was used to find out values of the odd ratios to determine the relationship of risk status of breast cancer and life style behavior. Result: The study results showed that there was a significant relationship between lifestyle behaviors of women in terms of physical activity, smoking habit, history of Diabetes Malleitus, history of hypertension, history of exposure of environmental hazards and obesity measured by BMI calculation and risk status of breast cancer as evidenced by the significant value of adjusted odd ratios satisfied with the value of p-(0.02,0.04,0.02,0.01,0.003, 0.03) at 0.05 level of significance. Discussion: The significant association was found between life style behavior and risk status of breast cancer. The study can be concluded by saying that women had not adequate knowledge about risk factors and life style behavior of breast cancer.