BACKGROUND: The breast carcinoma is the most frequent malignancy in the women in the Czech Republic. The incidence of the breast carcinoma is still increasing. But the diagnostics and treatment of this disease was also changed. MATERIAL AND A METHODS: Retrospective study on the Department of Surgery Pardubice General Hospital. There are compared two periods--the years 1991 and 2006. Particularly there are followed numbers of procedures, diagnostics methods, types of procedures, size of the tumor, lymph node and systemic metastases, preoperative time and age of the patients. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The number of procedures doubled, the size of the tumor decreased from 3.05 to 2.01 cm, detection of lymph node metastases and lung metastases improved, there is trend to breast conservative treatment, preoperative time shortened.

Chirurgická klinika Fakulta zdravotnických studií Univerzita Pardubice