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June 2009KUWAIT MEDICAL JOURNAL 167We used this cohort to quantify the association between the sex of the patient and breast cancer-specificmortality, using the Cox proportional hazards. The sex of the patient did not significantly influence theprognosis of breast cancer. Adjusting for age at diagnosis and calendar period did not alter the results.Nor did the results change when the analyses were repeated for all causes of morality. Our study, oneof the largest to date, failed to find evidence to support the proposed association between the sex ofbreast cancer patients and survival. Given the previous reports, which advocated that male breast cancerpatients have poorer survival and need aggressive treatment strategies, our findings are reassuring andclinically very important.Fine needle Aspiration Cytology of Breast Masses in Childrenand Adolescents: Experience with 1404 AspiratesKapila K, Pathan SK, Al-Mosawy FA, George SS, Haji BE, Al-Ayadhy BDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, and Cytology Laboratory, Mubarak Al-KabeerHospital, Safat, Kuwait. E-Mail: kkapila@yahoo.comActa Cytol 2008; 52:681-686Objective: To study the distribution and efficacy of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in the diagnosisof breast lesions in pediatric and adolescent patients.Study design: From January 1993 to December 2006, the cytology reports of 1404 breast aspirates (178males and 1226 females) performed on children and adolescents (ranging from 1 to 21 years) werereviewed. Of these 41, 179, 506 and 678 aspirates belonged to the age group 1-