Correlation of educational status and clinicopathological characteristics of breast cancer: A single center experience.

e11549 Background: Educational status may be an important parameter in assessing breast cancer risk and prognosis. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between the level of education and clinicopathological characteristics of breast cancer, including tumor grade, HER-2 and estrogen receptor status, tumor size, axillary lymph node involvement and metastasis. Methods: The study included 1800 women who were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer during 2005-2013 at Hacettepe University Cancer Institute. Patients were divided into three groups according to their educational status at the time of diagnosis. This was classified as low (illiterate and elementary school, 5 years or less of education), medium (secondary school and upper secondary school, 6–12 years of education) and high (university level, more than 12 years of education). The associations between educational status and clinicopathologic features of breast cancer at the time of diagnosis were evaluated. Results: In all patient, ...