Material and methods: Between the March 2020 to September 2020 (over the period of 6 months) total 110 women with breast cancer having age range 30-60 years were recruited from Department of Surgery, Bahawal Victoria Hospital Bahawalpur for this cross sectional study. Modified radical mastectomy was performed in all selected patients.  At 6 months follow up, all the selected patients was again examined for  recurrence of breast cancer.

Results: Total 110 patients with breast cancer were recruited.  Mean age of the patients was 43.56 ± 8.9 years.  Recurrence of breast cancer was found in 25 (23%) cases.  Total 11 (10%) patients belonged to age group <30 years followed by 13 (11.82%) patients to age group 30-40 years, 41 (37.27%) to age group 41-50 years and 45 (40.91%) patients to age group 51-60 years.  Recurrence of breast cancer was noted in 2 (18.18%) patients, 3 (23.08%) patients, 10 (24.39%) patients and 10 (22.22%) patients respectively.   Statistically insignificant association of recurrence with age group was noted with p value 0.9776.

Conclusion: Results of this study showed a higher rate of recurrence of breast carcinoma after modified radical mastectomy.  Most of the patients belonged to 5^th decade of life.  Parity, educational status and marital status showed no association with recurrence of breast cancer.